Background Tasks
Background tasks refer collectively to actions that are registered with the phone OS to run in the background, and that occupy the following four distinct areas of application functionality:
Scheduled notifications
Scheduled tasks
Background file transfers
Background audio
Of these, scheduled notifications are the simplest to use ...
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