iOS 13 Schedule iOS background tasks - ios13

I am implementing BackgroundTasks Framework for updating the data. But I got the below issue
Could not schedule refreshApp: Error Domain=BGTaskSchedulerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
Could not schedule data featch: Error Domain=BGTaskSchedulerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
2019-10-01 19:19:32.550320+0530 SOBackgroundTask[34131:1129470] Can't end BackgroundTask: no background task exists with identifier 3 (0x3), or it may have already been ended. Break in UIApplicationEndBackgroundTaskError() to debug.

Here are possible error codes for Domain=BGTaskSchedulerErrorDomain extracted from ObjC headers with some explanation.
BGTaskSchedulerErrorCodeUnavailable = 1 // Background task scheduling functionality is not available for this app/extension. Background App Refresh may have been disabled in Settings.
BGTaskSchedulerErrorCodeTooManyPendingTaskRequests = 2 // The task request could not be submitted because there are too many pending task requests of this type. Cancel some existing task requests before trying again.
BGTaskSchedulerErrorCodeNotPermitted = 3 // The task request could not be submitted because the appropriate background mode is not included in the UIBackgroundModes array, or its identifier was not present in the BGTaskSchedulerPermittedIdentifiers array in the app's Info.plist.

The solution is to run on a device. I was running on a simulator. However, It was showing the Background App Refresh has been enabled in Settings while running on the simulator.
There may be some other reasons. Please visit
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/backgroundtasks/bgtaskschedulererrorcode/bgtaskschedulererrorcodeunavailable?language=objc

For:
BGTaskSchedulerErrorDomain error 3
Check inside the project’s .xcodeproj file for the appropriate target. Then go to the info tab and Custom iOS Target Properties and check that the permitted background task scheduler identifiers (BGTaskSchedulerPermittedIdentifiers) are added.
This solved my problem when adding BackgroundTasks to an existing project.

Please check if you miss registering BGTaskSchedulerPermittedIdentifiers in info.plist file of your project.

I have tested on real device(iOS13.2, and iOS13.2.2), but it's same result.
Error Domain=BGTaskSchedulerErrorDomain Code=2 "(null)"
Can't end BackgroundTask: no background task exists with identifier 37 (0x25), or it may have already been ended. Break in UIApplicationEndBackgroundTaskError() to debug.
Error Domain=BGTaskSchedulerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
Can't end BackgroundTask: no background task exists with identifier 113 (0x71), or it may have already been ended. Break in UIApplicationEndBackgroundTaskError() to debug.
It seems that there is still exist bug.
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/121990

I think this is because that your mobile turn the bg refresh off!!!!!!!

In case of BGTaskSchedulerErrorDomain error 3, I didn't add below
<array>
<string>com.shiny.job</string>
<string>com.shiny.jobpower</string>
<string>com.shiny.jobnet</string>
<string>com.shiny.jobpowernet</string>
</array>```

Just check the Background Modes has been added to the target Capabilities and that Background fetch and Background processing options are selected

According to https://developer.apple.com/documentation/backgroundtasks/bgtaskschedulererrorcode/bgtaskschedulererrorcodeunavailable?language=objc, this error usually occurs for one of three reasons:
The user has disabled background refresh in settings.
The app is running on Simulator which doesn’t support background
processing.
The keyboard extension either hasn’t set RequestsOpenAccess to YES in
The Info.plist File, or the user hasn’t granted open access.
The extension type isn’t able to schedule background tasks.

check you Appdelegate.swift is including WorkmanagerPlugin.registerTask(withIdentifier: "your.task.id")

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When is sessionReachabilityDidChange(_:) called on a watch WCSessionDelegate?

Apple's documentation says this in the discussion section of the method description:
This method is called to let the
current process know that its counterpart session’s reachability
changed.
The description of the isReachable property says this: WatchKit
extension. The iOS device is within range, so communication can occur
and the WatchKit extension is running in the foreground, or is running
with a high priority in the background (for example, during a workout
session or when a complication is loading its initial timeline data).
I am assuming this would mean that if the watch moves out of or into range of the iOS device, the WatchKit extension would be launched and the WCSessionDelegate's sessionReachabilityDidChange() method would be called, and the WCSession's isReachable would be true if the iOS device just came into range and false if it just when out of range.
I have not found a way to verify this in xcode. For example I put a log message in sessionReachabilityDidChange(_:) and walked out of range, but xcode simply says the app lost connection with the iphone and can no longer debug it. Can someone verify this or point me to some documentation that better describes this?
I think you cannot verify this in Xcode.
I have an app on iOS and watchOS. To check this kind of situation, I can enable debug alerts on iOS and watchOS. When func sessionReachabilityDidChange(session: WCSession) is triggered, I display a debug alert.
Now, if I run (not under Xcode) my watch extension, and then switch off the paired iPhone, the debug alert is shown on the watch.
This shows that sessionReachabilityDidChange is actually called as expected.
Apparently, under Xcode a connected iOS device is always reachable.
EDIT:
To check the situation when the watch extension is not in foreground, I did the following:
Instead of showing a debug alert, I set now the complication to a unique value that is not possible otherwise. I launched the watch extension and put it into background by showing the watch face with the complication.
When I now switch off the iPhone, the complication is not updated.
This indicates to me that sessionReachabilityDidChange is not called in background.

How to check if the biometric scanner is available and initialized in Xamarin android BiometricPrompt

Failed biometric(fingerprint) scan attempts are handled by OnAuthenticationFailed() callback of BiometricPrompt.AuthenticationCallback class.
The behavior I noticed is, it lets the user attempt 5 invalid fingerprint scans (each time the fail callback is invoked) and then the prompt dismisses. Within the next 30 secs, if we try to re-build a BiometricPrompt instance and try to authenticate, it does not show the prompt which I think is the default behavior of BiometricPrompt.
Is there anyway to check if the biometric scanner is available and initialised if the user attempts to re-invoke biometric prompt within the said 30secs?
How can I handle that use case?
xamarin android BiometricPrompt.AuthenticationCallback does not have an override method "onAuthenticationError" to handle error callbacks and thus I'm unable to handle error code "BIOMETRIC_ERROR_TIMEOUT".
If someone has a solution for this, please do let me know your resolution.
I believe that BiometricPrompt is not fully ported to Xamarin yet...
I'm still looking for a source that can double check this info for me, but I haven't found it either.

Symfony - background task from form setup

Would you know how to run a background task on Symfony 4, based on the setup of a form ? This would avoid that the user has to remain on the form until the task is finished.
The idea would be that when the form is validated, it starts an independant background task. Then the user can continue its navigation and come back once the task is finished to get the results.
Thanks for your help,
You need to use pattern Message Bus. Symfony has own implementation of this pattern since version 4.1 introducing Messenger Component.
You can see documentation here: https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/messenger.html
To get it work you need some external program that will implement AMQP protocol. Most popular in PHP world IMHO RabbitMQ.
A very simple solution for this could be the following procedure:
Form is valid.
A temporary file is created.
Cronjob gets executed every five minutes and starts a symfony command.
The command checks if the file exists and if it's empty.
If so, the command works of the background task. But before this, the command write it's process id in the file to prevent from beeing excuted a second time.
Remove the file when the command has finished.
As long as the file exists you can show a hint for the user that the task is running.

HKWorkoutSession isn't keeping app at front of Apple Watch

It has been stated that an app running a HKWorkoutSession will have special privileges over other watchOS 2 apps, so when a user looks at their Apple Watch, it will go to the view showing running a workout rather than the watch face.
Currently, on both my device and simulator, this is not the case. If I start a HKWorkoutSession and then leave for 5 minutes and then interact with either the Apple Watch, or the Watch Simulator, it presents the watch face.
If I then open my app, it appears to have been frozen, rather than terminated (which is what I imagine happens to other apps). As the UI will update when I need receive a response in my query.updateHandler. Also if I set it to provide haptic feedback every time my query.updateHandler receives a new HKQuantitySample it will do so, so the app must be running in the background in some form.
Has anyone else noticed this behaviour, and am I doing anything wrong, or expecting something I shouldn't?
Here is how I start my HKWorkoutSession:
self.workoutSession = HKWorkoutSession(activityType: HKWorkoutActivityType.Other, locationType: HKWorkoutSessionLocationType.Indoor)
self.healthStore.startWorkoutSession(self.workoutSession) {
success, error in
if error != nil {
print("startWorkoutSession \(error)\n")
self.printLabel.setText("startWorkoutSession \(error)")
self.printLabel.setTextColor(UIColor.redColor())
}
We're seeing that too, for the moment we've made sure 'opens last activity' is configured.
When the UI is active we start a dispatch_timer to request and process data in 1 second intervals.
Make sure you do any significant processing using the NSUserProcessInfo method though and pause the dispatch_timers whenever you are no longer active. You'll get crashes otherwise.

SmartTarget Errors in log file

I don't have any errors with my smart target application, but I do see in the event log, the following error messages:
ERROR 2012-09-19 14:30:09
com.tridion.smarttarget.utils.AmbientDataHelper - can't find defined
trigger-types in claim store (check if your smarttarget cartridge is
up and running)
and:
ERROR 2012-09-19 14:30:11
com.tridion.smarttarget.tags.TimeoutQueryRunner - The fredhopper query
timed out java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException at
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(Unknown Source) at
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(Unknown Source) at
com.tridion.smarttarget.tags.TimeoutQueryRunner.executeQuery(TimeoutQueryRunner.java:64)
ERROR 2012-09-19 14:30:11
com.tridion.smarttarget.tags.TimeoutQueryRunner - The fredhopper query
timed out
I would really like to understand what is causing these and how I can remove them. Or some suggested steps to help me debug this would be great :)
As I say, everything is working perfectly, later on in the logs I see the query to ST is correct and the results being generated.
In the event that is helps, I'm running on a 2009 implementation with Smart Target 2010, java 1.5.
thanks
John
Sounds like you might have a trigger configured in ST that does not actually exist in the ADF (or is mismatched). Have you looked through your trigger-types.xml file for anything obvious? Have you disabled an ADF cartridge but not removed the corresponding trigger in the XML perhaps? See the documentation for Defining trigger types.
I think your timeout is coming from the SmartTarget region rather than FredHopper. Sometimes a query that isn't already cached in FredHopper can take a while to return, even though it's ultimately successful. The ST query tag has a timeout (defined in the smarttarget_conf.xml file, or over-ridden with a tag attribute) that it will wait for a response from Fredhopper for before resorting to using the fallback content. This might explain why you see later in the logs that the query is correct and that results are returned. See the documentation for <tcdl:query>.
No conclusive answer for you I'm afraid, but I hope that helps.
The first error is logged if your SmartTarget cartridge is not running -- or if the data that it puts into ADF is lost somehow (e.g. you have disabled sessions in your web server).
In that case, SmartTarget will still do a query but it won't include anything from the Ambient Data Framework in it. If you don't have any triggers based on ambient data, the end result is the same for you.
To get rid of the error, make sure that smarttarget_cartridge is configured correctly.
As for the timeout error, it simply means that the query sent to Fredhopper took longer than the configured time. In that case it will show the fallback content instead. If this is happening a lot, you might want to increase the timeout within smarttarget_conf.xml.
I hope you found the issue, but for future reference, the first error message is raised when the claim "taf:claim:ambientdata:definedtriggertypes" is not set by the SmartTarget cartridge. This can be caused by:
SmartTarget cartridge could not load the the trigger types from the SmartTarget server. The log will show an error "can't retrieve list of defined trigger types from FH".
The HTTP session on your web server is expired during an active visit (the HTTP session expired but the browser is still open) and the claim is "lost".
The server does not support sessions like Peter mentioned.

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