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> On 12.11.2013, at 11:35, "Roland King" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I see the fine line you're walking now, you have to register for notifications and it looks like the silent ones are UIRemoteNotificationTypeNewsstandContentAvailability, so the user (and hence the tester) is going to get a rather odd message asking if he will allow the app to download new issues in the background .. that's certainly confusing and may be enough against the spirit of what Apple designed silent pushes for to get disallowed.
>
> pmarcos answers quite a lot in that forum so you might just want to ask directly if you can do what you want and if so how you can register for them. If the answer is 'you can't' I'd file a bug report pointing out how very useful silent push notifications generically are. They fit the whole patten of having apps triggered from external things instead of keep waking up and seeing if something changed.
>
>> On 12 Nov, 2013, at 6:28 pm, David Chu <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Roland + Etan,
>>
>> You nailed it. I'm trying to use silent notifications to start a background service scan.
>>
>> I'll check the dev boards as you said. If I find anything out, I'll be sure to let you guys know.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> - Dave
>>
>>> On Nov 12, 2013, at 6:19 PM, Roland King <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think he's talking about Push Notifications, nothing to do with BTLE, but using them to silently start a service scanning in the background. That's quite creative.
>>>
>>> I don't see where in the documentation is says it's only for updating content, and 'updating content' could potentially mean all sorts of things anyway. Just that it has to have a content-available key in the json. The user would have to agree to receiving the notifications.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately there's no telling what Apple will or won't approve without writing it and sending it in . I don't even know how much testing they do of push notifications when they test an app. You could try the apple dev forums about notifications as well, might be some hints there.
>>>
>>>> On 12 Nov, 2013, at 5:59 pm, Etan Kissling <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> David,
>>>>
>>>> could it be that there’s a confusion about the terminology?
>>>>
>>>> Notifications (and indications) are sent out by the peripheral to push content to the central without having
>>>> to repeatedly read a characteristic.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, you can write a notification handler that starts a scan. Remember to set the corresponding
>>>> background-mode keys in Info.plist.
>>>>
>>>> And custom service UUIDs are also not a problem. In fact, there are only a few standard profiles yet, and
>>>> most manufacturers use custom UUIDs for their tasks.
>>>>
>>>> Etan
>>>>
>>>>> On 12.11.2013, at 06:22, David Chu <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not worried about the technical side of doing this, but I was wondering if anyone knows if Apple will reject it. From the documentation it says that remote notifications are used to update content. Can it be used to update CBPeripherals as well?
>>>>>
>>>>> The use case is time-sensitive and the CBUUID is a custom service.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>
>>>>> David Chu
>>>>>
>>>>>
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