Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App • Hacker News Board

Re: Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App

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Post by mcCuppaT » Wed, Oct 14, 2015, 9:17 PM UTC

I've had to do the same thing for my iOS enterprise app. The issue is that you can't play audio if you're app is in the background and you haven't used your audio session in the past 1-2 minutes.

The workaround is to play a silent audio mp3 to prevent the app's audio session from being suspended.

The proper fix would be for apps to be allowed to start audio from the background

Re: Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App

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Post by glomph » Wed, Oct 14, 2015, 11:55 PM UTC

Abundnce10 wrote: post #17

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try Facebook Lite. It's designed for low powered phones.

I tried installing Facebook Lite in the Google Play store but it says "This item isn't available in your country". I live in the US.

They intend for it to only be used in countries with slower internet. You can download the apk from http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/facebook-2/lite/ and it will work.

Re: Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App

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Post by rizwank » Thu, Oct 15, 2015, 10:19 AM UTC

mccoolman wrote: post #20

Last week my SO was freaking out because she kept getting ads for things she had conversations about in person, but never looked up on her phone. A few days ago I asked her why we had a plastic bag from Games Workshop (we've never shopped there and the bag came from a Craigslist purchase we had made). Her phone was sitting on the table, and a few hours later she showed me an ad for Games Workshop on her news feed. Th…

Ever checked the T and Cs to see if they are capturing audio?