Xamarin Froms The program does not work well in the background.

Question

Hello everyone. I have a problem with my program, it uses Essentials: Accelerometer to count the number of slopes of the device.But the problem is that it sometimes does not work or sometimes it works but not stably when the phone is in the background or when the screen is locked.The program also uses Essentials: Vibration, which also does not work or does not work stably in the background or in the mode with the screen locked. Please help solve this problem of stable operation of the program in the background. Thanks !!!

Answer 1

Hello,​

For Android, you can use Essentials: Accelerometer in the Service, due to the background service limitation in android 8.0 or later. You can try to create a Foreground Service, then run Essentials: Accelerometer in foreground service.

Foreground service will push a notification in the foreground, it will keep your application running in the background, your application will not be killed or hang easily.

For iOS, you can register your application to run in the Background, please notice: your application should fall into approved categories.

Best Regards,

Leon Lu

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Answer 2

I tested the program with background services, but it did not give the desired result.Here is my code on github // https://github.com/Ilim-Hussein/MyMobilProject // I have compiled a test sample of the program. Can you see if everything is correct?