Phonegap/Cordova platform independent background service

Question

We've been working on a mobile app using Phonegap/Cordova 3.3.0.

The problem we have now is that we really need a background service for this app which needs to run without opening the app itself.

I've found some services like https://github.com/Red-Folder/Cordova-Plugin-BackgroundService but all of these services seem platform dependent. The beauty of Phonegap is that the development is mostly platform independent.

Does anyone know of a background service which runs independent of any platform? I think it's pretty hard to find such a service because IOS and android differ too much.

Thank you very much in advance.

Fatso

It has been awhile. What did you decide to do? Did you abandon Cordova and learn native or did you find a solution for at least Android and iOS? – Lissner

Answer 1

I think you are right with you assumptions, unless anyone has developed the plugin yourself then looks like you'll have to do it yourself.

But I am not sure how to do this in iOS - I do not think it supports true multitasking?

However, remember that with Cordova/PhoneGap - the only reason it is truly cross-platform is because somebody before you wrote the bridges between native-to-JavaScript - so there is always going to be an element of native code in there somewhere.

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