Separate background agent for a Windows Phone app to update live tile + lock screen independently

Question

Is this possible? Or are Windows Phone 8 apps restricted to only a single background agent?

I currently have a background agent updating the live tile, and am pushing the memory constraints applicable to a Periodic Task as it is. If/when I add lock screen support whereby the lock screen needs to be updated as well in the background, must this be achieved via the same Periodic Task or can I have a separate background agent running just to update the lock screen?

Bardi

Answer 1

You have only one BG agent available and then there is resource intensive task (which run when phone is charging I think) but that is not probably what you want.

BG agents should run every 30 minutes, so for example you can update lockscreen on odd runs and live tiles on even in case of memory problems.