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Many app need to keep state while they are in background though. Imagine your browswer tabs reloading every time you swotch to a different app and back.

• pretext-1 3y ago
  Doesn’t mean your apps need to run in the background all the time. State restoration is a concept that has been present in Android/iOS from the beginning (or almost) and many apps implement it successfully. This is not why the “Don’t kill my app” author wants to run in the background. Also Android has ongoing notifications which let your app stay running forever and iOS introduced Live Activities in iOS 16 which can be used similarly (e.g. Instagram uses it to finish uploads in the background). But what the author of “Don’t kill my app” wants is to run in the background without making it obvious to the user, which many would consider malicious. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/view_controllers/preserving_your_app_s_ui_across_launches/ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/view_control... https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/saving-states https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/s...
  • sebtron 3y ago
    Yeah, but I was talking as a user. The worst case of this for me was with Google Maps, you'd think Google would know how to write apps for their OS.
  • g-b-r 3y ago
    No, even apps displaying a constant notification get killed, just less often.
• guappa 3y ago
  You can… save a file?