From the course: Developing UWP Apps: 9 Background Tasks

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Background task types

Background task types

- [Instructor] The Universal Windows Platform is really the most feature rich and robust platform for background tasks of any other operating system to date. And in general, background task types fall into one of four categories. Three of these categories are actually documented under background tasks in the Universal Windows Platform documentation, but I've added an additional one 'cause I think it's a good fit here and that is user action. Let's take a look at these various types. Control channel is a background task type so that we can keep a connection alive and receive messages on a control channel. This is a little bit of a specialized background task. I'm not going to be covering it in this session, but we are going to be covering the remaining three types, timer, push notification, and user action. The timer background task is simply going to run on a schedule or at a specified time, just as the name denotes. A push notification task type is going to respond to raw…

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