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Adil
Adil

Reputation: 3268

WP8 Uploading/Downloading large files

I am fairly new to Windows Phone development. We have a scenario where we allow user to upload or download files but along with authentication (oAuth, NTLM, forms all standard mechanism but not limited to oAuth).

Now so far our RnD suggest that we have following options

1- Resource Intensive Agent The constraints associated with Resource Intensive (like Minimum battery etc.) have lead us to drop this option

2- Periodic Agent A relatively better option, however as they run after 30 minutes and the constraint of 10 minutes duration gives us doubt that on mobile if user wants to upload a video of say 1-2 GB, it does not guarantee competition and u can anticipate other problems associated with this approach.

3- Background File Transfer This is the best option in our scenario however my colleague told me that it does not support basic windows authentication and that we cannot change user-agent etc.

4- On Application Another option is to perform network operation on application but we cant retain user on application for longer duration and also after sometime lock screen would appear. So...

Can anyone who have experienced similar scenario or from product team can guide here. It's a common scenario, are we missing something here? or is it really API limitation?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 656

Answers (1)

Benjamin Gruenbaum
Benjamin Gruenbaum

Reputation: 276306

Resource Intensive Agents will indeed not work for your use case because they require external power to work. Not to mention that if the user receives a phone call the agent terminates.

Periodic Agent Have a 25 second limited duration, not 10 minutes (10 minutes are in resource intensive agents), so they are really no an option if you need to upload a gigabyte of information.

Background File Transfers have a hard limit of 100 megabytes. (It's even less on cellular internet).

On Application is a very possible option, you can prevent the phone from going to lock screen if that's a problem. The bigger issue here is that the user is pretty much stuck for the duration of the upload. More importantly, this seems to be your only option out of the four you mentioned.

Upvotes: 1

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