I have an Android App I am building and I want to do something similar to what iOS does when you push a notification the app will launch in the background and perform a task then go back to sleep. I want to do this be cause I need to set a application value that tracks new content added since the last time the user opens my app.
So if I send 3 push notifications and 2 are notifying the user about new content in area "A" and the other is notifying the user about new content in a area "B", then I want to increment some application values every time a notification is received. Then when the app opens I can bring attention to the areas with updated content.
If there isn't a way to do this with push notifications I could always set up some sort of update reference table that my app would have to check upon opening to get the update counts since last launch.
Thanks, Fissh