how come? arent foreground services cool anymore t...
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ursus
02/10/2019, 1:58 AMhow come? arent foreground services cool anymore to not have the process killed?
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kioba
02/10/2019, 12:49 PMI have never built a chat app, but
Foreground services must display a Notification.u
ursus
02/10/2019, 9:36 PMbecause without foreground service uploading the big file, when going to background, you are background status, which is elligible for killing, while fg service is higher status, making it less likely to get killed upon mem pressure
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ibraiz_teamo
02/11/2019, 7:11 AMUse work manager
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ursus
02/11/2019, 2:05 PMwhy, isnt that a wrapper around job scheduler also? file upload in chat needs to be immediate
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ibraiz_teamo
02/12/2019, 5:56 AMbut it'll be done in background and it can be observed inside activity/fragment
ibraiz_teamo
02/12/2019, 5:57 AMdon't scehdule it...fire it up right away when you need it
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ursus
02/12/2019, 2:29 PMsorry thats not the point. point is why they dont use fg service in order not to get killed in bg
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ibraiz_teamo
02/14/2019, 7:08 AMwith new background restrictions fg service might get killed when memory is low but work manager will finish its work, may be later then expected. You can also achieve the same with fg service but WM is easier to implement
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ursus
02/14/2019, 8:22 AMfg service is exempt from bg restrictions afaik
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ibraiz_teamo
02/14/2019, 8:46 AMit's not exempted...it's just that it rarely happens
if it is long-running, cpu intesive then it might get killed
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ursus
02/14/2019, 1:47 PMi think you are conflating things. processes get killed on memory pressure by order of they rank, bg is lowest, fg service is middle, foreground is top
ursus
02/14/2019, 1:48 PMcpu is different thing, that is related to screen being off - cpu sleep mode = you can get a wake lock for that
ursus
02/14/2019, 1:49 PMoreo background restrictions are related to location, bluetooth etc of background ranked, whicj you are not when app has fg service
ursus
02/14/2019, 1:50 PManother thing is doze moze, which takes away network and alarms, also fg service not subject
ursus
02/14/2019, 1:50 PMonly thing fg service gets fucked by is chinese phones who dont give a fuck about android developers
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ibraiz_teamo
02/19/2019, 6:33 AMthanks for clearing it up and ur last observation is quite true.
ibraiz_teamo
02/19/2019, 6:33 AMSo what did you decided on using?
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ursus
02/19/2019, 3:26 PMHavent decided yet, got to know first if server supports upload resuming
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