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Android Question Creating Long time running apps in background
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You have to remember that you and your app are a "guest" on the Android system, at the discretion of the "Android Overlord". Your app is no more important than the latest "Flappy Bird" clone. Unless...
You will probably need a rooted phone, with super user installed. I have used the following in scripts, but never through B4A, so there may be an Android/Java interface as well, I just haven't checked.
Look into setting your OOM value and Renicing your process id; careful, the values are in reverse order ie lower means higher... for at least one of them and also go into -ve for OOM I think. I previously had a phone with only 512mb ram and setting these values to the extreme did a pretty good job of limiting Androids ability to randomly kill processes. In my case, it would previously kill my background music player while I was using Navigation (Google Maps)
But even with the above, i don't think you will get around a "Force Stop" in Settings/Apps
You will probably need a rooted phone, with super user installed. I have used the following in scripts, but never through B4A, so there may be an Android/Java interface as well, I just haven't checked.
Look into setting your OOM value and Renicing your process id; careful, the values are in reverse order ie lower means higher... for at least one of them and also go into -ve for OOM I think. I previously had a phone with only 512mb ram and setting these values to the extreme did a pretty good job of limiting Androids ability to randomly kill processes. In my case, it would previously kill my background music player while I was using Navigation (Google Maps)
But even with the above, i don't think you will get around a "Force Stop" in Settings/Apps
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yes, it will not start if OS were to kill the app upon system resource tight.
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Hope not to misunderstand your question.
If each time the service is started you add a StartServiceAt, the service should restart again after specified time, also if the OS kill the app.
StartServiceAT is based on alarm timer of the device, the OS can't kill that.
If each time the service is started you add a StartServiceAt, the service should restart again after specified time, also if the OS kill the app.
StartServiceAT is based on alarm timer of the device, the OS can't kill that.
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If the App is terminated manually by the user (with a taskmanager for example) it won´t restart the service unless the user manually started your app again.
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