Chapter 11: Background Tasks
A. V. Senthil Kumar, Lohith Goudagere Nagaraj, Pathik Rawal, Pryank Rohilla · Apress eBooks · 2015
In any application, you may have to silently perform certain tasks in the background. The Universal Windows Platform provides a Background Tasks feature that lets you run code in the background. A background task is nothing but a JavaScript file that the OS runs in the background. A background task is usually run against a system trigger that you can subscribe to. A background task needs to be declared in the application task. Background tasks can report progress, completion, and cancellation to apps through certain events. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.