InstaMapper

That's a relief, many thanks!

ninety wrote:

is there a way to enable tracking even when another app us running?

We would love to, but Apple does not allow 3rd party apps to run in the background.

Apple has completely disabled the ability to do this, you can't do it even if you want to (and even if you found a way to, apple would pull it from the App store), the API apple has created simply shuts down the program when you go to another one. So the answer to these questions is simply...

No, the application can NOT track when you do not have the application running, nor can it be made to do so.

I have no affiliation with InstaMapper or any other iPhone programming team. But I am a programmer myself and have read practically all the iPhone developer documentation. It's general knowledge that iPhone applications CANNOT run in the background, NONE of them except those released by apple themselves. Apple is developing a program (For any apps such as AIM, etc that NEED background notification, but this will use apples servers, and the servers will notify the phone of updates, etc. So as far as I know, even this won't really help with InstaMapper. This is supposedly going to arrive in September.)

Hope this helps!

- Vert

So does it run when the phone turns off on its own?  ie I have the application running, then the iphone hits the sleep timer and the screen goes off, is it still running then or

it runs only when
1) screen is one
2) instamapper is the foreground application

?

So, does the app gets shut down when the phone's screen switches off after say 1 minute? Or does the app still run, but just the screen is blank?

>> BUT... Loopt runs in the background!  Is that because they made a special arrangement with Apple?

I don't think Loopt runs in the background either.  If I do not have the app on-screen, my position is not updated until I tap on the icon and run the app and not until it starts "locating".  I don't mind that they don't run in the background because they really drain the battery fast.

jd3rdpig wrote:

>> BUT... Loopt runs in the background!  Is that because they made a special arrangement with Apple?

I don't think Loopt runs in the background either.  If I do not have the app on-screen, my position is not updated until I tap on the icon and run the app and not until it starts "locating".  I don't mind that they don't run in the background because they really drain the battery fast.

I stand corrected... Loopt does NOT run in the background on iPhones... Loopt advertises otherwise, then they minimally clearify that only crackberries get that feature, iPhone users have to CONSTANTLY launch loopt to note their locatation... So, yeah, you'll walk right by an iPhone user .    I WAS going to get iPhones for the whole family... Now, we'll wait.