I have a requirement to develop an app that is capable of receiving pushed information from a server – which as its not possible to intercept SMSs or apple push notifications would probably have to be implemented as a poll and see what’s there or similar type of thing.
However of course such a thing isn’t possible if the app isn’t executing in the background.
The app couldn’t be considered to be musical or voip related, however its possible that it could be considered to be gps related as the pushed information would be displayed to the user based on certain triggers, and one of those triggers could be location.
Would this app with a UIBackgroundMode of gps submitted to the app store stand a good chance of being accepted?
i have been trying to do the same thing and here is what i found
iPhone – Backgrounding to poll for events
(top answer: update 2)
shows a method that should be ok, meaning your app wont be rejected for using it. the guy who posted it said it should be ok and i have asked other members who said the same (i have not verified this myself).
here is my implementation of that post
local notifications?