Background service running

Former Member over 8 years ago

Hi,
Just got my hands on a fenix3HR, and have a couple of funky ideas of apps which may get me round to learning how to code in monkeyC for this plateform.
Any of you guys know if it is possible to build apps which can stay running constantly in background (whatever is happening on the screen watchface/widget/activity) ? I'm not planning in building a battery killer but rather a an app which needs to "live" permanently, with a background part of my app that would work as a headless service / daemon, spend most of its time idle / in some sort of sleep state, woken up when it needs to work, and a UX part which might actually be a widget/activity/watchface which can safely be loaded/unloaded to interact with the daemon part of the app / display relevant info.

Oh and by the way, is multithreading possible ?

Thanks in advance for any insight.

Former Member over 8 years ago

Background services are not possible with ConnectIQ.

Former Member over 8 years ago

And why isn't it the case ?

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 8 years ago

The main reason is simply due to limited resources. The fenix 3, in particular, is very thin on memory, so running background processes isn't really feasible on these devices. That doesn't mean it's not possible in the future. Other reasons include things like our desire to preserve battery life as much as possible.