iOS: showing an alert when getting a call?

Question

I would like a local notification to be fired when a call is received (and to show an alert) - is this possible? Can a call event get an app to launch or a notification to b

Answer 1

And, to answer the part of your question nobody's touched yet, Skype is using backgrounding methods specifically meant to keep an app alive in the background to receive VOIP calls. A little bit of it is actually running, waiting to be called. Unless you claim to be a backgrounding app for VOIP or audio purposes, you can't do that--and if you DO claim that, you better be DOING it, or you'll never hit the app store.