Waking a Xamarin Forms Application

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Waking a Xamarin Forms Application

cdrew 21

Developing an App which sends jobs to a worker - it already has a background service (under Android) which is used to send updates back to the server but I have been asked to look at support for 'Lone Workers'. The basic requirement is every say 30 minutes, the App will display a popup to which the user must confirm they are still OK and then that response will be sent back to the server.

Fine if the App remains active however it needs to be able to work even if the phone is asleep as the user may look at their jobs and then just put the phone down. Is there a reliable / preferred way that I could force an App into the foreground, waking the phone if necessary to alert them on a timed basis?

Wenyan Zhang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 36,456 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-10-15T07:28:23.083+00:00

Due to the policy, I'm afraid we can't force an App into the foreground. I think you mean that you need the tasks that are performed in the background, right?
Refer to
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/app-fundamentals/backgrounding/introduction-to-backgrounding-in-ios
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/app-fundamentals/services/

In addition, if the user close the app, you could push Notification to alert them.