background-process

Having a look around, am I correct in thinking that the only type of background services are audio, voip and location services and so that if I wanted to communicate with a server I have to use push notifications. This means that badges are only uses for push notifications. Update: I want to check for updates on the server every 5 minutes or so. So the device is checking the server, not the server pushing to the device. I suppose email is an example. It polls the server. Thanks Simon You have a number of options: Push Notifications This is the most friendly for battery and device resources;

I want to write a program that can be run as a backgrounded task (i.e. my-thing & ), and that will beautifully provide relevant output when necessary. However, with background tasks that print to the terminal, there's always this annoying little progression: bash-3.2$ my-thing & ▏ bash-3.2$ my-thing & bash-3.2$ -- Hello from my-thing! -- now let me start doing what I do best ... ▏ … notice that we now have no prompt before the cursor, not to mention that there's an ugly erraneous prompt where my program spat out output while a prompt had already been printed. Thus, I want three things, only

I am creating an application in which I need to always be connected via a TCP socket. My application already works well in terms of the connection, but when it gets sent to the background, the android system eventually kills the process. This causes it to become disconnected from the server. I've been looking for a way to always keep the application alive, but haven't found anything. Could someone tell me what would be the best way to make it so that my application is not closed when it's in the background, or, barring this, make it restart itself if it is closed? I'm starting with this and is

My intention is this. My client.html calls a php script check.php via ajax. I want check.php to check if another script task.php is already being run. If it is, I do nothing. If it is not, I need to run it in the background. I have an idea what I want to do, but am unsure how to do it. Part A. I know how to call check.php via ajax. Part B. In check.php I might need to run task.php. I think I need something like: $PID = shell_exec("php task.php > /dev/null & echo $!"); I think the "> /dev/null &" bit tells it to run in the background, but am unsure what the "$!" does. Part C. The $PID I need as

I have a Shell command that I'd like to run in the background and I've read that this can be done by suffixing an & to the command which causes it to run as a background process but I need some more functionality and was wondering how to go about it: I'd like the command to start and run in the background every time the system restarts. I'd like to be able to able to start and stop it as and when needed just like one can do service apache2 start . How can I go about this? Is there a tool that allows me to run a command as a service? I'm a little lost with this. Thanks Sorpigal Take a look at