Notifications and background activity

the Clock1.Timer event will not work in the background, you have use your background event handler which looks like a procedure, you correctly registered your timer procedure for this, see also my example for Jeff here Maintain the activity of an application in the background - #25 by Taifun
and just follow my suggestion

Taifun


I am sorry for too much questions , but I still couldn't find a solution
here is my main project block , notice the notifier show alert , I just want my app to work in background , and send a notification like whatsapp notifications , in the place where the notifier shows alert.

It helps to be clear about your requirements... you now showed us a screenshot using CloudDB...
Unfortunately itoo is currently not compatible with CloudDB... see also here

Taifun

so as I understand , an application that uses clouddb , can't work in the background ?

kindly check this extension
https://ullisroboterseite.de/android-AI2-KeepAlive-en.html
do you think this extension can achieve what I need in my application ?

I do not know, I'm not familiar with that extension... itoo is the most powerful extension concerning background functionality...

just experiment yourself and let us know what you find out...

See also @SteveJG 's comment and example here

Taifun

The new update now adds compatibility with CloudDB.

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kindly would you help me please here , I want my application to send notifications even if it's killed not working , like whatsapp for example , it sends notification even if the app is closed

SimpleItooCloudDB.aia (82.2 KB)

I cannot help you with everything totally making the app. But here's what that might help you start.

thank you,sure I dont want everything, my code is ready , I just need the notification issues.
why do I need the clouddb here ? I dont understand what is its use here

I think , you miss understand the purpose of my application.
I have a sensor on arduino that senses the absence of electric power , so it sends me the data to a redis data base
on MIT app side , I read those values from the database , and sends a notification displaying those data according to a certain criteria.
everything is ready , but what i need now is to make this app sends notification even if the app is not working , even if the app is closed - I want to it to work in background even if it's killed by the user , so that it still sends notification all time

the latest screenshot you showed us was about CloudDB

so this is a CloudDB, isn't it?
your logic in the background is more or less "if CloudDB.DataChanged then send notification"... isn't it?

Taifun

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I guess that is the purpose here? We can use CloudDB to listen to data changes and send a notification accordingly, what else do you want?

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There was some miscommunication, we believed you would want to achieve "sending notification when the app is closed through CloudDB".

Okay so, let me try to help you, how would you know when to send a notification to the user?

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I need , the app to send notifications even if the app is not working - like telegram for example it still sends us notifications even if its not working or even its not opened by the user.

Alright how do you know the time when to send a notification? It might help if you describe that to us.

I will make it more clear with an example :
i have data about electricity failure, true : means the electric power is available
false: means the electric power is not available.
I read those values from an online Redis Database
my app , reads those data , if the data is false for 10 minutes , using a timer , it must send a notification for the user " Electric Power is not available since 10 minutes"
then , if it stills not available more , it sends notification every 5 minutes
I can send the blocks if you want me to
Your help is really appreciated thank you

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Alright, so it looks like you are constantly checking the Redis database to know when there is a power outage?

How do you read the data? Can you share those blocks with us?
I'll help you write some basic logics and you'll do the rest.

Yes that's true
here are the blocks

Well, you are using CloudDB to check when there's a power outage?

Then why not check the earlier example posted that demonstrates how to use Cloud DB in background, from where you can check the database on a regular interval?