I am using this page as the officially documented support page for a new iOS app called “Widgets Factory”

It has been recently initially approved and released to the iOS App Store!

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Here are some example screenshots:

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Known Issues

The background task and refresh processing capabilities on iOS are severely limited and hampered due to some of the more hostile protection mechanisms built in. I will also say that these protection mechanisms do serve a good purpose as to try and protect the battery life and foreground processing requests to give the user a better mobile experience. It would still be nice if Apple could improve the background system to guarantee some additional service capabilities:

• Don’t sleep or stop the apps non-main thread if it is registered and expecting a background refresh, instead provide a minimum/minimal percentage of dedicated processing time overall
• Ensure that the requested caller gets a background refresh process time after waiting a maximum of 5-15 minutes
• Provide a specific API method call that is background approved to perform the basic needed tasks on behalf of the calling application with a minimal guaranteed processing time:
  • Location Coordinates
  • Map Snapshots
  • Web Fetches
  • Widget Views
  • Push Notifications

Future Wishes

It would also be nice for apps that are free without ads to be able to have a one-time (or even re-occurring) tip jar that user’s could donate whatever amount they feel comfortable with to the developer.

Contact Information

• root<ats>fossjon<dot>com
• Or comment on this post!

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