Xam Background Service Plugin for Xamarin.Forms

A plugin library to simplify Backgrounding in Xamarin.Forms.

This is a fork from (MatchaBackgroundService). Xamarin Forms version is updated to latest and also Android SDK is upgraded to support AndroidX.

Get Started

Ever wonder how facebook and twitter process there background to fetch a new content? And it looks so slick that when you refresh it was snappy and smooth, Making the user believed that the content is refreshed and updated in a snap when in fact it was done in the background.

The secret behind it was the background service. And so we have created Matcha.BackgroundService to make our backgrounding task be simple and maintenable.

Setup

• NuGet: Xam.BackgroundService
• PM> Install-Package Xam.BackgroundService
• Install into ALL of your projects, include client projects.

For Android

You call the "Init" method before all libraries initialization in MainActivity class.

public class MainActivity : global::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.FormsAppCompatActivity
{
    protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
    {
        BackgroundAggregator.Init(this);
        
        base.OnCreate(bundle);
        ....// Code for init was here
    }
}

For iOS

You call the "Init" method before all libraries initialization in FinishedLaunching method in FormsApplicationDelegate class.

public partial class AppDelegate : global::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.iOS.FormsApplicationDelegate
{
    public override bool FinishedLaunching(UIApplication app, NSDictionary options)
    {
         BackgroundAggregator.Init(this);
         
        ....// Code for init was here
         return base.FinishedLaunching(app, options);
    }
}

Platform Supported

Platform	Version
Xamarin.iOS	iOS 7+
Xamarin.Android	API 15+
Windows 10 UWP	10+
.NET Standard	2.0+