iOS Question services ulternative ?

[le_toubib]

hi
in b4a i use a background service to post to a php/mysql server every 10minutes , and check for any changes and notify user if any ... and it s working fine.

how to implement this in ios , from what i read on the forum , the only thing i found is to use the silent notifications ... but that sounds difficult . does it mean i ll have to start the whole app in the background every 10 minutes? what about battery?
is there any smarter solution?
any ulternative strategy than to post to the server every 10 min to check for changes? can the server directly contact my iphone app via php whenever a change arrives?

 

[Erel]

does it mean i ll have to start the whole app in the background every 10 minutes? what about battery?

This is actually what your app is doing in B4A.

You should use background fetch: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/background-fetch-downloads.56022/