I have no idea how this can be framed as a slight against Huawei. Huawei decided to have aggressive battery management (which to many is a good thing) to the detriment of apps that need to continue to run in the background.

If this is causing a significant loss of rating for the app, they are well within their rights to blacklist installs from the play store for those devices. Those users can still install the app via the APK (which is admittedly a poorer experience).

Edit: Also I'm not sure where your'e getting the "West hates Huawei so much" vibe from. They've done a few things that have been unpopular from the POV of the Android community at large, such as no longer allowing unlocking of their devices this week, but I would say their bigger issue in the West is that they are simply not marketed much.

1996 you're wrong on "West hates Huawei so much". American might not have a great opinion of the brand but VLC is French project and I can tell you Huawei is popular in France. USA doesn't represent the whole West, just part of it.

My friends from the mainland call these people “愤青”, basically young extremely patriotic men.

Basically any sleight against China and they’ll come in droves, screeching people down and proclaiming the eternal glory of the lunar kingdom (and its subsidiaries).

Fortunately, as this thread shows, English language forums only get one or two of these crazies at a time.

You are not sure where I am getting that the west hates Huawei?? really? Here are some random links.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17532696/sprint-t-mobile-c...

https://www.quora.com/Did-Trump-sign-an-act-to-ban-Huawei-ph...

https://www.lightreading.com/mobile/4g-lte/will-trump-make-a...

Those are government actions.. and if you want the reasoning, then you can read the report from the congressional investigation into Huawai and ZTE: https://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/...

Until the findings of that report have been reversed, Huawai will continue to find the US Government hostile to their actions, and willing to put up roadblocks wherever they can to stop Huawai's entry into the US market.

All 3 links are related to the Trump administration, which is known for its isolationist stances on many things. That's not "the west".

You do realize VLC was started in France, right?

Last I checked, France seemed to dilike the Huawei for being pricing their phones too low, and being too ambitious.

https://www.frenchweb.fr/comment-huawei-avance-ses-pions-en-...

I wonder how you feel about Huawei however- maybe my perception is biased.

So because one author on one French site wrote one article that has a slightly negative title but otherwise neutral content, suddenly the whole country dislikes the company?

Get over your biases.

I'm glad someone with those biases is here; obviously '1996 is far outnumbered on HN by those with other biases.

It's great for responsiveness and battery life mostly, but doing it unilaterally as one vendor among many makes things break in weird ways. Windows phone had apis and permissions for background audio, that would let the app run (with a much lower memory quota), but I don't think Android has that, so apps that need to do that may not be able to inform the system.