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I won't stop telling this: mobile platforms need not only third party app stores, but third party push notifications services too. Both iOS and Android love to
by Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
I won't stop telling this: mobile platforms need not only third party app stores, but third party push notifications services too. Both iOS and Android love to kill apps in the background. This behavior, sans push notifications, cripples a lot of types of applications (chiefly, all messengers).
If there ever would be some legal pressure on Apple& Google to open up their platforms, it is important to make this point known to legislators.
- user5994461 6y agoApplications have to be paused to save battery, or killed to save memory. You can lookup the Android doc since the first version 10+ years ago, it explains very well the lifecycle of apps. Mobile devices would be unusable if it were not for that.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoThis obvious thing you say doesn't change the fact that there is no a way to wake an app from sleep without FCM push notifications or running a background service with persistent notification (which users hate), which has a lot of restrictions that get tighter with every new version of Android.