Terminated App on IOS 7 and Multitasking

Question

is it possible to have the App Connection to a server Open even if the App has been Terminated from the Background ?

Here is what I'm trying to accomplish

Twitter Client should keep watching user events . and when that events occur it send a Local notification to the user . the whole idea is to stay a way from Push notification and all servers Problems and costs

so in order to to get Local notification works just like Push notification the connection between my IOS 7 App and Twitter API must be Open all the time

any idea if that even possible ?

Answer 1

No, this is not possible. What you're basically asking for is a daemon functionality which is not available on iOS. The whole point about iOS multitasking is that the OS can (and will) terminate your app if it is in the background and other tasks need the resources. That's the problem Push Notifications solve (to some degree).

Answer 2

You could possibly try background fetch feature on iOS 7 to periodically download content updates for user in background.