I want to run two app simultaneously, I am using jailbroken phone and dont want to upload that app to the app store.
Is there any way so that I can log phone call time, this can only be done if my "logging app" is running in background.
Please suggest me, how can I do this on jailbroken phone.
Some thing like:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms884959.aspx (its for windows)
Is this actually a programming question, or are you asking for an app that logs call times?
Assuming the former, you would write a iPhone program that hooks into current phone conversations some way (private APIs? Not sure if this is indeed possible, just assuming.) You would then run your app via Backgrounder or some other wrapper that provided an interface for multiple applications to run at the same time. This usually comes at the cost of increase battery life, depending on how much CPU (and maybe memory?) the backgrounded app consumes.
Backgrounder is available via Cydia, I believe.
Need to include CoreTelephony, will solve the issue
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I want to develop one application which should be monitoring how much application is running on how much time on my I-Phone Device(including internet browsers).
Please share your idea regarding this post.
little similar like this:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/system-manager/id455736462?mt=8
thanks
You really can't since Apple has placed very restrictive guidelines on Apps for iOS.
Although with some low level call you might get some running process information.
Because of the sandbox environment you might not be abele to much more information then that.
Also app's in background are suspended if they have no background running flaggs (voip, audio, location or accessory). Also if the system gets low on memory app that are suspended get killed and there memory freed up.
What you can do:
Try the List of All Processes OS X code which
Can we retrieve the applications currently running in iPhone and iPad
But keep in mind the restiction placed on you app by Apple: The iOS Environment, thus that there are app availble in the appstore that do what you want does not mean that you app will be allowed.
I want to know whether we can get power off or on events in iphone. In other platforms like Android, BREW we will get a notification to our app saying the phone is turned ON. Is it possible in iphone?
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Jithendra
Short answer: no.
Your app isn't running on power-on, so there's nothing to notify. (A special case here would be apps registered as VoIP clients. But you still can't tell whether the handset just started or whether your app was killed for some other reason and then restarted.)
And when iOS shuts down it will send KILL signals to any background running tasks. You can't intercept them, so that doesn't really help you. (And even if you could, again, it doesn't say why your app is being killed.)
I am new to ios development and doing development in ios4.0.1 and xcode 3.2.3. My application should capture other application's launch time and (close) end time. how can we do this? Any help will be appreciated.
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Pushpa
For apps in the app store, the answer is "You can't". The best way to think of other applications on iOS with respect to yours is: don't. You can't access their data, you can't see if they're running, you can't control them, and you can't change them. Apps are well and truly sand-boxed as a fundamental design decision in the current setup.
About the only thing you can do is trigger their launch with a suitably formatted system URL. If a Wikipedia application has registered the scheme wiki, you might be able to launch and communicate some simple data by having the system load the URL wiki://articleName, but that's the limit. You don't even know what application will be launched, only that one has the wiki handler.
Jail-broken iOS systems are a whole different matter, but I'm assuming you're not working on those.
I want to make an app that runs in the background so that if a user is reading a web page or PDF file on an iPhone or iPad, he can mark some words, see the meaning of those words, and then have those words stored in the app's database. He can then afterwards look for the words which he has learnt and increase his vocabulary.
Does the iOS 4 API allow that? What are the limitations? Advantages? Disadvantages?
Thanks in advance
No is does not, you can only run voip. audio or navigation apps in the background.
Only one app can run at a time, and installing one app cannot effect any built in app. So no, there is no way to achieve what you are trying for here.
Your best bet is to instruct users to copy the word, open the app, and then you can snag whatever is on the clipboard then.
(Note there are multitasking APIs, but you still cant access anything outside of your app even if you convince the OS to let you run in the background for a little while)
is it possible and how to implement forbiden exit from application on iphone/ipad?
we have an application that must permanently work on ipad device. user should not have any way to exit from application. could you advise how to implement this functionality?
By jailbreaking it and installing custom software that enables you to do that.
Or putting a lot of tape over all the buttons.
Anyways, you can't do this with a standard app on a standard device. Just think about it - would be a pretty annoying thing for apps to do, wouldn't it?
Apple's own human interface design guidelines would forbid this. Your app can't encroach on the abilities of the OS that transcend your own application's responsibilities. The whole point is to have a consistent experience for the device and if you're modifying something as fundamental as switching apps, you're violating that principle.
If you can't exit the app, you're essentially turning your device into a single purpose unit. How do you expect to get back to the app list if you disable fast app switching and the home button?
Whatever solution you find would not be approved by the app store.
You should look at whether the current multitasking features can help chip away at your reasoning for needing the app to always run in the foreground.
If you are talking about an enterprise app locally distributed, you might be able to do this, though probably not.
The best idea would be to physically break or block the hardware button.
Or issue alerts to the device every 10 seconds making the thing effectively unusable when outside the application (you can ignore incoming notifications for you in-app).
Why do you have this requirement?
There is no way to implement this functionality. You cannot do it.
You can't do it, But if you jailbreak and configure the "Home-Button" settings you can :)
Btw, If you do it, the only way to quit will be a shutdown... And to shut down every time would be kinda annoying...