I have a Sticky Service and i'm stress testing the app by filling the phone's RAM. Once the RAM is full, the service is destroyed. Since it's a sticky service, it gets restarted automatically when the system has enough resources.
But this happens only on stock android devices like Moto/Nexus. Devices like Xiaomi or Lava do not restart the sticky service, even on 5.1
Is anyone aware of such problems with heavily customized ROMs? Any workarounds to schedule a restart of my service when the memory gets low?
All stock android devices like works well because they use AOSP ROM's
These devices(HUAWEI,LAVA,XIAOMI) are shipped with pre-installed start managers or energy savers (most of the Huawei devices). If the app is not configured appropriately the services will be killed several seconds/minutes after the screen turns off - or it will not automatically be started after reboot.
Now with the feature called Protected Apps, I tried enabling in my app and still the sticky service is not getting started post the App Kill.
also, furher observation is:-- The HUAWEI device does not even hold a foreground service
Now the possible workaround is:--
We can use Alarm Manager class to make sure that the service is
running when it's necessary. So this Alarm manager can be used to
create a timer which checks from time to time if the service should be
running and restart it. This time interval needs to be set considering
the possible impact on battery consumption.
