title: How to keep iphone ios xmpp connection alive while in the background?
body: <p>The XMPPFramework for iPhone is powerful.  I have it up and running, but how do you keep the connection alive while in the background for more than 10 minutes?  I would appreciate some more documentation/how-tos on how to accomplish this.</p>
  
  <p>So the use case is simple and common:  Joe is online and in the iPhone chat app. He leave the chat app and goes to Safari, plays a game, streams a movie, and does other stuff for 3 hours (or more).  Joe wants to keep receiving messages during that time.</p>
  
  <p>The example app allows Joe to receive local notifications in the background, but for only 10 minutes it seems. Here's the relevant code (I think).  Thanks!</p>
  
  <p>To help out other folks, to even get to this point, you need to the xmppstream property enableBackgroundingSocket to YES (it's done for you in the iphoneXMPP example project which you should copy) and in the appname-info.plist (i.e., iosChat-info-plist) file you need to add a new key/value pair.  You should right click somewhere and "add row".  You should choose for the key "required background modes" and then type in "voip".  Xcode will detect that you mean "App provides Voice over IP services" after you press enter.  This gets you 10 minutes of keeping the chat app open in the background (I think).  But we want indefinitely, and I suspect that the answer lies in the method below.  Am I just supposed to "reconnect" within this method or something,e.g., [self connect] (I have a connect method)?</p>
  
  <pre><code>- (void)applicationDidEnterBackground:(UIApplication *)application{
  
  DDLogVerbose(@"%@: %@", THIS_FILE, THIS_METHOD);
  
  if ([application respondsToSelector:@selector(setKeepAliveTimeout:handler:)]) 
  {
      [application setKeepAliveTimeout:600 handler:^{
  
          DDLogVerbose(@"KeepAliveHandler");
  
          // Do other keep alive stuff here.
      }];
  }}
  </code></pre>