Thread: Bluefire reader app
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Old 11-16-2011, 08:57 AM   #739
Micah
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Originally Posted by Barty View Post
Backgrounder causes problems In other asps.

And it's really not necessary now that iOS has pseudo multitasking.

I'm curious why bluefire has this conflict while other apps don't.
I don't actually know the nitty gritty details (I'm basically a UX guy) - but our devs do. I assume it has something to do with the C++ libraries that make up the guts of the app. Most iOS apps that support either PDF or EPUB leverage built-in native iOS features/API's. In order to support Adobe's DRM, our app has to do all of the PDF rendering and EPUB rendering itself - from scratch essentially (e.g. the EPUB renderer in Bluefire Reader essentially is a custom-purpose web browser for eBooks - with full CSS support, etc). It is *many*, *many* thousands of lines of code. Far more complexity than 99.9% of apps including games.
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