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Push Notifications have a very small payload on iOS; besides, the app doesn't get "woken up" and allowed to run to process the payload until it's switched to.
by glhaynes 16y ago
Push Notifications have a very small payload on iOS; besides, the app doesn't get "woken up" and allowed to run to process the payload until it's switched to.
- stcredzero 16y agoRight. The best they can do is to respond to the push notifications when the user next runs their app. So Instapaper could present the possible downloads in a dialog, then when the user agrees, use Task Completion to download them in the background. This might be workable, and would often be very useful, though less convenient than a true background fetch.
- glhaynes 16y agoYeah. Mr. Arment's proposed solution sounds pretty good to me, and seems to fit the "spirit" of the existing multitasking APIs.