[Interest] Make Android App Restart When It Can't Resume Quickly

[David Engel]

Hi,

I'm one of the developers of the MythTV, open source DVR.  Over the
last several months, we've ported our frontend (aka client) from Linux
with Qt to run on Android with Qt.  It's to the point now that some of
us are using Nvidia Shield TVs as our primary frontends.

One annoying problem that remains is that resuming the app can
sometimes take several minutes.  By resume I mean switching back to
the app after the device has been sleeping for several hours or other
apps have been in use.  I know Android doesn't have traditional swap
like Linux, so I can only assume that the Android system and/or the Qt
framework is saving and restoring significant process state somewhere.
What I'd like to do is have our app resume where it was but only if
that can be done in a few seconds.  If it can't resume quickly, then
want it to disregard any previous state and restart.  How can I do
that?  Other apps like Kodi seem to work that way, but I can't figure
out how they do it.

Thanks,
David
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David Engel
david at istwok.net