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So how do you propose to write a sleep tracking app that doesn't run a background process for longer than 20 minutes?

• wor3q 8y ago
  In a way that it has to be explicitly allowed to do so by the user. I don't need an online store app to eat up my phone's battery, and disabling background by default seems to be only option here.
• scarface74 8y ago
  That’s a solved problem on iOS. iOS itself keeps track of measurements coming from your device even when it’s sleep using the power efficient Mx chip. Applications can then - with user permissions - request the data when needed. This has been the case since 2013. The app doesn’t need to be running in the background.
• dangerface 8y ago
  I have a Xiaomi and oneplus phone, neither of them have ever closed a background app so I dunno what you are talking about, but if phones are doing that then, yea fair enough thats a problem. The wording in the linked website is talking more specifically about cpu limits, which is how most os manage background resources, whats the problem with that? Sleep tracking is a good example you should use an event system, but developers are lazy and use "while (true) {}", which is my point.
  • hiddentruth 8y ago
    Are fitness tracking apps able to run uninterrupted in your Xiaomi phone? Did you change any relevant settings?
    • dangerface 8y ago
      I had a huwaii fit-bit-thing for a few months it uses two apps and I had issues getting them to talk to other software, but no problems tracking or shutting down, didn't change any settings. Maybe other apps have problems but theirs worked fine.