Question

This is my code

    //This is an event that fires when a PhoneGap application is put into the background.
    document.addEventListener("pause", onPause, false);

    //This is an event that fires when a PhoneGap application is retrieved from the background.
    document.addEventListener("resume", onResume, false);

    // Handle the pause event
    function onPause(){
    console.log("pause : app is put into background");
    }


    // Handle the resume event
    function onResume() {
    console.log("resume : app is put into foreground");
    }

When i press the home button there is no log in the console however when I click the app (make it in foreground) then my log is

2011-11-22 12:11:37.206 Event[644:207] [INFO] pause : app is put into background
2011-11-22 12:11:37.206 Event[644:207] [INFO] resume : app is put into foreground

I don’t know why pause function is called when it comes in foreground.
Is there anything that I’m doing wrong?

Answer 1

This is from the docs

iOS Quirks

In the pause handler, any calls that go through Objective-C will not work, nor will any calls that are interactive, like alerts. This means that you cannot call console.log (and its variants), or any calls from Plugins or the PhoneGap API. These will only be processed when the app resumes (processed on the next run-loop).