jQuery Application - Resume application from a background 'trigger' - What's the expected behavior?
I have built a jQuery application that does background GeoLocation using the Christocracy geo-location plugin.
It runs well in the foreground, runs flawlessly in the background. The GeoLocation plugin has a feature to restart the application upon termination on IOS (swipe away).
Technically - in the background this is accomplished on the plugin side - at termination - IOS provides a framework for doing this (via the location services api). The plugin writes to the IOS framework a stationary geo-fence around the current location - with a radius of around 50 meters.
Upon a significant location change - IOS wakes up the APP - and passes it the significant location change - and also restarts the app - from scratch.
The expected behavior from the plugin - and from the demo apps the plugin vendor has created - is that it does a window.locaton.reload() on startup - this then kicks off the geo-services again - and you're back in business - tracking the users location in the background - even though they swiped it away. This is also true upon phone restart - the plugin forces this same behavior.
In the Appery app however - the app terminaties and creates the stationary fence just fine. AND - IOS does in fact restart the app.
However, the Appery app - starts in the background - and IOS shows the app is active (it has an active PID) ... and the IOS privacy settings show the app monitoring location in the background - HOWEVER, the window.location.reload() never occurs.
The log review shows the app starting, Cordova saying the app started, and is in multi-tasking mode - however, the log entry that the Cordova library throws when fully loaded - which says "active" (preceded by name of app) - never shows.
What's going on in the background? What is Cordova doing in the background ? What would you guys expect ? Would you expect this to work? or not? if not - why not?