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What would be the problem with this getting on the App Store? As far as I can tell, the guy is just controlling his 802.11 wirelessly enabled garage door via h
by comatose_kid 18y ago
What would be the problem with this getting on the App Store? As far as I can tell, the guy is just controlling his 802.11 wirelessly enabled garage door via his android phone.
- kirubakaran 18y agoYou can't run your app as a background process in iPhone.
- zacharydanger 18y agoOn the technical side, the wifi scanner portion of this hack runs as a background process to passively determine when the phone gets near his house. And background processes on the iPhone are a heartily disallowed by Apple. On the pure speculation side, I think you would have to be a lunatic to try and push this kind of hack through the App store's bureaucracy. And I don't imagine his particular setup is common enough to warrant it either.
- comatose_kid 18y agoThanks - I missed that part. I figured there was no scanning going on until he pressed a button in his app (of course, now that I think about it, that would be a pretty poor user experience). Apple really needs to get over the background app limitation -> a notification API isn't enough to solve this kind of problem.