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No combined notification+ringer volume control? No non-dismissable notifications? ~~No disabling of the bottom search bar?~~ fair point this is launcher issue What the fuck is that shit?!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It was a way for apps to run without risk of being killed while letting the user easily see that the app was running.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That sounds like a weird way to get around battery optimizations without having to ask the user to explicitly do that for this app? I mean there is a mechanic for that already via disabling battery optimizations, far as I understand it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Showing a notification doesn't "evade" battery optimization - as battery optimization is completely independent of Android's memory management.

Showing a notification allows Android's memory management to better assess what apps to kill using a weights system, based on whether they are in the foreground or background, if any of the app's overlays/notifications are visible to the user, and exactly how visible they are.

Battery optimization will kill any non-system app based on how frequently it is used, dependent on its overall background CPU usage, regardless of whether the app is showing a notification or not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Exactly, it was a crappy stop gap solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I hated apps that did that. Never really worked anyway. Do your app properly for God's sake!