Android's behavior WRT to background services over the years changed from "MAY kill" to "WILL kill", so for people who never honored the official docs (unfortun

Android's behavior WRT to background services over the years changed from "MAY kill" to "WILL kill", so for people who never honored the official docs (unfortunately most of them), this was a problem. Additionally, Alarms and Broadcast Listeners were seriously crippled which made common workarounds much harder.