This is a great write-up. As someone who bought the Ubuntu tablet I wondered what was happening at times and this gives a lot of information. Readers might be

This is a great write-up. As someone who bought the Ubuntu tablet I wondered what was happening at times and this gives a lot of information. Readers might be interested to know that the Ubuntu for phones [and tablets] project continues as UBports. Their wiki[1] and latest blog post[2] might also be of interest. If you check out the blog post you can see that they have been consulting with app developers and are working on a solution to the notifications issue - "To service notifications in the future while improving user privacy, we will implement “headless apps”. The OS will call these every few minutes and allow them to do some work in the background such as check for messages. This will be done with battery savings and user control in mind." There's a more detailed report on the meeting on the forum [3]. Finally HN readers might like to check out the Halium project - which aims "to standardize the middleware software used by various projects to talk with android daemons and make use of hardware". Some details on it's progress in [2]. 1. https://wiki.ubports.com/wiki/Home https://wiki.ubports.com/wiki/Home 2. https://blog.ubports.com/qanda/2017/06/14/community-update.html https://blog.ubports.com/qanda/2017/06/14/community-update.h... 3. https://forums.ubports.com/topic/273/june-1-2017-app-developer-os-developer-meeting https://forums.ubports.com/topic/273/june-1-2017-app-develop...