Android vendors, don’t kill my app
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Android vendors, don’t kill my app
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Re: Android vendors, don’t kill my app
#2The site lacks proper technical explanation of what the problem is exactly.
Re: Android vendors, don’t kill my app
#3I actually like the move to kill background tasks. Don't get me wrong I think they're great when they're needed. But if I only installed the app because the mobile site is crippled I don't want it to destroy my battery polling for content changes when I only open the app once in a blue moon.
Re: Android vendors, don’t kill my app
#4The site lacks proper technical explanation of what the problem is exactly.
This sheds a bit more light on it, whilst still being non-technical: https://dontkillmyapp.com/problem/
It seems to be that these vendors ship builds of Android with aggressive battery-optimized defaults that breaks applications that rely on being able to run in the background.
Re: Android vendors, don’t kill my app
#5Interestingly though it is possible to remotely detect which users are facing this problem and send them instructions on how to add an app to the device's whitelist. I faced this exact problem in my previous company Flock, and built services to detect and inform users which substantially brought down user complaints.
https://hackernoon.com/notifications-in-android-are-horribly...
Re: Android vendors, don’t kill my app
#6I haven't followed the scene closely, but isn't it the same behavior as Apple? Can you even do background tasks in iOS?
Re: Android vendors, don’t kill my app
#7I actually like the move to kill background tasks. Don't get me wrong I think they're great when they're needed. But if I only installed the app because the mobile site is crippled I don't want it to destroy my battery polling for content changes when I only open the app once in a blue moon.
Killing background tasks is great and Android does that automatically to save battery usage. But these manufacturers have implemented their own functionality on top of Android which cripples even critical messaging applications like WhatsApp, Slack, Gmail by not delivering Instant Messages notifications instantly.
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#8Custom alarm clocks and health trackers work fine on my OnePlus. What is the problem exactly?
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#9Don't drain my battery - Hey Android devs, don't drain my battery when I'm not running your app.
Re: Android vendors, don’t kill my app
#10tl;dr The author would like to run his app in the background without notifying the user about it, because otherwise the author would just add add an ongoing notification, which would allow the app to run in the background forever on all platforms.