Keep program running in background ios

Question

I am working on an application which allows to send messages to another user.

If I press Home Button app goes first in background and then in suspended state so I don't receive any message unless I bring app back to the foreground.

How can I fix this to receive messages even if app is in background or suspended state? Solution is to avoid app to go suspended?

Some ideas please

Thanks and regards

Possible duplicate of [Get push notification while App in foreground iOS](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14872088/get-push-notification-while-app-in-foreground-ios) — Antony Raphel, Dec 14 '17 at 12:31
@AntonyRaphel his question is related to when the app doesn't receive notifications in the background not foreground. Thanks! — Mohamad Bachir Sidani, Dec 14 '17 at 12:32
Use push notifications. You'll need a server for that i think. — GeneCode, Dec 15 '17 at 01:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 14 '17 at 12:30

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For that you have to use Push notifications as they will wake your app when a notification is received (in your case a message is sent to your app). Do you have this implemented?

Another Dirty way would be to keep a silent Music file playing when in background state thus the app nevel sleeps (unless terminated by user). Nut keep in mind that this trick wont let you publish your app to the app store!

Hope this helps!

answered Dec 14 '17 at 12:30

Mohamad Bachir Sidani

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Will push notifications work if the sender is Android device? or even PC? – RuLoViC Dec 14 '17 at 12:55
Yes, however to use Push notifications you need a developer account (99$ per year) even in development stage. – Mohamad Bachir Sidani Dec 14 '17 at 12:57
And also I need to tell my server to send the message to Apple's APNS server otherwise I won't get notified, right? – RuLoViC Dec 14 '17 at 13:02
Yes, and you can program your android to do that, however I need to ask, are you trying to do notifications between devices and not mainly from servers? fir that Firebase is a perfect tool to achieve what you are doing – Mohamad Bachir Sidani Dec 14 '17 at 13:09
No, I have my own server and messages go through it, so I guess I would need to change also clients in other platforms – RuLoViC Dec 14 '17 at 14:31
yes, if you feel this is the right answer I kindly ask you to mak it as correct :) Thanks! – Mohamad Bachir Sidani Dec 14 '17 at 17:50

Shehata Gamal · Answer 2 · 2017-12-14T12:43:26.227

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Use Voip to wake the app upon receiving push notification then handle it and pull from server as you want

migrate-to-ios-voip-push-notifications

edited Dec 14 '17 at 12:43

answered Dec 14 '17 at 12:31

Shehata Gamal

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Just by adding that will the app "wake up" from time to time? – RuLoViC Dec 14 '17 at 12:34
This for temporary fetch I will edit it for time to time – Shehata Gamal Dec 14 '17 at 12:37

Keep program running in background ios

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