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I am having a difficult time finding documentation on background tasks support for Xamarin.Forms. Does Xamarin.Forms provide support for periodic background tasks?
I need to implement this for both Windows Phone 10 and Android.
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In May 2020, Microsoft announced that Xamarin. Forms, a major component of its mobile app development framework, would be deprecated in November 2021 in favour of a new . Net based product called MAUI - Multiform App User Interface.
Xamarin support will end on May 1, 2024 for all Xamarin SDKs. Android 13 and Xcode 14 SDKs (iOS and iPadOS 16, macOS 13) will be the final versions Xamarin will target.
iOS, and Windows applications from a single shared codebase. Xamarin. Forms allows developers to create user interfaces in XAML with code-behind in C#. These interfaces are rendered as performant native controls on each platform.
Forms developers looking to apply their existing knowledge to build mobile apps with Flutter. If you understand the fundamentals of the Xamarin. Forms framework, then you can use this document as a jump start to Flutter development.
XF has no implementation for background tasks. You will need to implement these natively. Below are examples on how to do it for each type of project.
UWP
https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples/tree/master/Samples/BackgroundTask
Android https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/android/application_fundamentals/backgrounding/part_2_android_services/
WinRT
https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2013/05/01/background-tasks-in-windows-store-apps.aspx
iOS
Just for those that want iOS as well. https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/application_fundamentals/backgrounding/part_3_ios_backgrounding_techniques/
Xamarin.Forms
Going into more detail for each section is https://xamarinhelp.com/xamarin-background-tasks/
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