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Re: an app that never quits
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Re: an app that never quits


  • Subject: Re: an app that never quits
  • From: BJ Homer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:43:34 -0600

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Erick Calder <email@hidden> wrote:

> I want to write a daemon for the iPhone.  my goal is to record the
> orientation of the phone across time for later analysis.  I am unsure how
> this could be done since it seems only one application gets to run at a time
> i.e. when the user takes a call my program quits.
>
> can this be done?
>

Not without jailbreaking; you simply can't write background apps on the
iPhone.  I'm not sure if you could do it on a jailbroken phone, since I've
never played with one.

-BJ
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