Re: Phone lock/Apple sounds
Re: Phone lock/Apple sounds
- Subject: Re: Phone lock/Apple sounds
- From: Luke the Hiesterman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 12:32:36 -0700
This is what push notifications are for.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/RemoteNotificationsPG/Introduction/Introduction.html
Luke
On Sep 9, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Dan Hopwood wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My iPhone application continuously pings a back-end server to check for new
> documents. If a new document is found an alert is triggered which consists
> of a dialogue and sound alert. If the phone is locked then neither of these
> events occur, which is undesirable. With a bit of googling I have discovered
> you can disable the standby timer, which helps but doesn't cover the use
> case when a user locks the phone manually.
>
> Is there any way to allow the alerts to continue to fire even when the phone
> is locked? Obviously Apple achieve this with calls/messages etc but perhaps
> it is not possible with 3rd party applications?
>
> I also have a query about using Apple's alert sounds. Firstly how would I
> get hold of for example the top three Apple alert tones (i.e. Tri-tone,
> Chime and Glass). Secondly, are these sounds copyrighted or are you able to
> use them in a 3rd party app.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Dan
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