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I'm new to Xamarin platform. I'm developing an application for all three major platforms (WP,iOS,Android) using Xamarin.forms. How can I sync data with my server in the background -> I need something similar to Android Service. I want to sync the data even when the user goes to a different screen of the app. It would be great if I could continue syncing the data even when the user leaves the app.
Thank you
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If you want to run background tasks anywhere in you application as your app is in the foreground, you’ll need to use what is called “ Background-Safe Tasks “. Xamarin iOS provides us a means of easily registering our tasks to run in the background.
Though C# gives us a way to run asynchronous tasks already, it might not be enough. You could also attempt to do multi-threading, but Android and iOS have built-in mechanisms to properly manage background tasks in Xamarin Forms. Workers are classes responsible for background tasks management in Android.
You could also attempt to do multi-threading, but Android and iOS have built-in mechanisms to properly manage background tasks in Xamarin Forms. Workers are classes responsible for background tasks management in Android.
To run a background task in Android, you simply use a Service. Android generally classifies tasks as either Long Running Tasks or Periodic Tasks. Either of these, is reasonable grounds to create a Service.
This is the only solution i have found http://arteksoftware.com/backgrounding-with-xamarin-forms/
in a few words: You can't abstract background tasks in Xamarin.Forms because iOS, Android and WP works in a different way. You have to use MessagingCenter to send and receive data from specific implementations in each platform
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Have look to this article: http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/application_fundamentals/backgrounding/part_3_ios_backgrounding_techniques/ios_backgrounding_with_tasks/
You could provably be interested in the Transfer Background tasks.
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