how to keep app as running process?

[SteveTX]

In order to use local event notifications and track 24-hour rollover periods, i need my app to be running in the background even when it isn't front screen. How is this accomplished in livecode?

[SteveTX]

LiveCode applications get Suspended, at least on android. They do not keep running in the background.

[SteveTX]

LiveCode will need to make some changes to do this, but here is how it is done.
0. Add custom external binary to run as a process
1. Open compiled APK binary
2. Modify manifest to change invoker intent
3. Make the intent as a process that calls the external binary then keeps following the invocation path of the livecode app.

[viro]

Could you go a bit into detail?

[SteveTX]

It can't currently be done via livecode alone, is the bottomline.

[William Jamieson]

Would there be a way to create an external in Java that will allow the Livecode app to run in the background? I feel that this could change a lot for the platform, but maybe we should wait and see what is coming with the release of next generation.

[SteveTX]

There is not a way to do it currently via Livecode, but you could create an app that instead launches livecode and handles the bits as the JNI interface. I would be willing to pay a bounty to have someone work on this, but what it really requires is access to the core parts of livecode which aren't opensource, such as the engine and packer.