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Praneeth
Praneeth

Reputation: 2547

Keep agent active in windows phone

I want a service to be active always in the background. Is this possible in the new SDK 7.1

I read through the Background File Transfers, Agents, and Alarms. I think these are only active for a period of time.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 92

Answers (2)

Richard Szalay
Richard Szalay

Reputation: 84784

Short answer: you can't

Background agents can only run for 15 seconds every ~30 minutes. Attempting to run for longer will result in the agent being terminated and not rescheduled. Riho is referring to something different: if the user does not run the owner application for 14 days your agent won't be rescheduled (even if it's successful); the application must be run and reschedule the agent.

Your only real choice is to move the functionality to the server and use push notifications to update the phone.

Upvotes: 1

Riho
Riho

Reputation: 4593

Agent gets deactivated after 14 days. Within that time you must make user to open your foreground application - then you can restart the agent and 14 days counter again.

Upvotes: 0

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