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Ensure background uploading is working #126

Closed n8fr8 closed 9 months ago

n8fr8 commented 5 years ago
tladesignz commented 5 years ago

Progress tracked in #127.

foundscapes commented 9 months ago

@tladesignz reopening since app stops once we navigate away/open diff app - background uploading should work

tladesignz commented 9 months ago

I guess you forgot?

There's no big background upload possibilities on iOS. Never have been, never will.

The only thing you can do is drop 1 (in words: one) file into the OS to tell it to upload it in the background.

However, uploads shouldn't stop immediately after you leave the app. Save pleas with the OS to keep it alive in the background. This is usually granted for 3 minutes, as long as the battery is in a decent charge range. (AFAIU above 20% typically, resp. not in battery saving mode.)

If that doesn't work anymore, please open up a new issue and I will check that.

Additionally, we can think about providing a dedicated upload mode, like lots of other uploader apps do:

=> Needs some UX design. The upload manager scene seems a natural candidate to extend.

foundscapes commented 9 months ago

@tladesignz I did not forget - can you implement a dedicated upload mode as you mentioned above? While it may not be fixable right now, this is an ongoing issue that we need to resolve somehow, someday, so we need to keep this open.

tladesignz commented 9 months ago

Can we please keep tracking this in #198 instead of constantly reopening 5 year old issues?

And please stop assigning me tasks, which are totally underspecified. Provide texts! Provide some UX ideas! (Can be text-only. But something I can work with.)