Is there any equivalent of Services of Android in iOS? Is there any equivalent of Services of Android in iOS? android android

Is there any equivalent of Services of Android in iOS?


No. There is no such thing in the SDK or in iPhone/iPad in general. You can only write code that will affect the eco system of the app, not the operating system.When your app is closed it's closed and no action will be taken until the user opens it/opens a push notification related to your app.

If the user approved location based services for your app, there are a few ways to run short background process even if your app is totally closed. One of them is by using Monitoring Shape-Based Regions which basically means if the user left region X/entered region Yopen the app and run a few commands before closing it again.

The clever way (and the only way I can think of) to accomplish what you're after in iOS is to run that service on a server and pull the data from the server when the app is opened.


You can find the solution here. Background Execution does this.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/iphone/conceptual/iphoneosprogrammingguide/ManagingYourApplicationsFlow/ManagingYourApplicationsFlow.html

Added: Apple does not allow apps to run in background for all the time. It provides some finite-length time to complete your app execution. You can increase that time depending on your execution need. But that is not recommended.