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Old 03-28-2012, 01:45 PM   #467
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Originally Posted by sclitheroe View Post
Pretty sure pretending to be a VOIP app is pretty much a guaranteed rejection from the store now - and this wouldn't account for the "lot's of apps" accessing the internet in the background that people are alluding to.

For timers, can't apps schedule local notifications (on-device push notifications that don't go OTA) to have themselves prodded to life on a fixed schedule?
Yeah, I'm not even sure many apps even got through with doing it, I just remember reading about some apps trying it.

Would the local notification happen seamlessly though? Or would it pop up a dialog requiring you to hit ok?

I want it to be completely seamless in the background. Which they many not like because that's a potential battery drain issue once again (an app that does this every 10 seconds), but they could limit it to a minimum 15 minutes or something.
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