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Forum,

I have a couple of iOS apps that I have developed in LiveCode. In the apps I have a help system that opens up a browser and takes the user to a context specific help page. Works like a champ.

Now here is the frustrating issue. When I double click the home button to display the running apps, there is my LiveCode app and Safari running on the iPhone. Every time I go back to the LiveCode app, iOS completely restarts the app. The user is taken back to the splash screen and needs to re-authenticate. This is a real pain in the butt.

My understanding is that iOS keeps the app in memory and it should just start from where the user was when you switch back to the app.

As far as I can tell the LiveCode app and Safari are the only two processes running on the phone so there shouldn't be a memory issue that would require the app to be restarted.

I'm able to switch between other apps without the app being restarted every time. Is this a LiveCode issue on iOS?

Is there something that I need to configure?

Would love to understand if others are having this same issue.

Thanks
Dan

Hi,

have a look at this recent discussion on the use-list:

http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nab ... 00634.html

Kind regards
Bernd

Are you opening a browser built in the app or passing the URL off to safari ?

Here's another place to look. I use something similar to this for all my mobile apps. If you want to investigate this further I can share the code I use.

http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4069/l/15 ... ile-device

Thanks for the followup on this issue.

Right now I'm launching a URL in safari. I expect this issue would go away if I would create a help browser in the app and not use an external browser.

So it looks like you need to do a special handler to take the user back to where they were before the suspend. I will look into what would be involved.

NOTE: This is not an issue on Android.

Thanks for the information.
Dan