Android vendors, don’t kill my app

Re:Android vendors, don’t kill my app by kda26 on Monday January 14, 2019 @06:30AM (#18902246)

On my phone (android), going to apps>selecting app I want to run in the background>battery>background usage I can allow the app to run unrestricted in the background.

All android phones I've owned had this option.

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Re:Android vendors, don’t kill my app by morganvachon on Monday January 14, 2019 @07:44AM (#18902552)

My understanding from the OP website is that this is ineffective for certain popular phone vendors' customizations. In particular, the Nokia phone listed comes preinstalled with an app that aggressively shuts down any running process, whitelisted or not, if the screen has been off for 20 minutes. There's simply no way to stop this behavior apart from gaining root and uninstalling the battery "saving" app, or flashing a stock Android image that doesn't contain it.

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Re:Android vendors, don’t kill my app by andai on Monday January 14, 2019 @08:22AM (#18902715)

A design so disrespectful it borders on malware.

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Re:Android vendors, don’t kill my app by noelsusman on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:18PM (#18906592)

The Nokia one is egregious, but their second worst vendor (OnePlus) allows users to whitelist individual apps, though there's a bug right now where that setting gets reset randomly.

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