Mishaal Rahman: "Android 14 seems to have quietly eliminated a trick some apps were using to keep themselves alive when the OS tried to kill them"
Mishaal Rahman: "Android 14 seems to have quietly eliminated a trick some apps were using to keep themselves alive when the OS tried to kill them"
Attached: 1 image Android 14 seems to have quietly eliminated a trick some apps were using to keep themselves alive when the OS tried to kill them. As spotted by Greenify developer Oasis Feng, Android now freezes a package's cgroup before killing it. Control groups (cgroups) is a Linux kernel feat...
I seriously don't get why this can no longer be controlled by the user. I like my weather and music to be readily available, everything else can be killed
I'm sure this will have good and bad consequences.
I think two great ways to manage this are
1: using permissions the user can see and grant/deny "Allow persistent background usage" or something like that with a tooltip or something that warms the user about resource usage. IIRC, this is already a thing in Android 14.
2: providing visibility into background app usage and history. They do this to some degree, but it's not as good as it could be. Especially when I want to know what is draining my battery when my phone is in my pocket.
This really was a trick and was mostly exploited.
An app that actually needs being in the background would just show a persistant notification.