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

[René Hansen]

As far as I know, Kodi is open source. So is their Android client:

https://kodi.wiki/view/Android_development

Maybe check it out for inspiration.


/René

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 at 21:35 David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:

> 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
> --
> David Engel
> david at istwok.net
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