The Immortal App
summary
Covers techniques to keep an Android app running indefinitely: surviving force-stop, relaunching the process after app download, and methods used by Chinese developers to make a process hard to stop. Also explores attempts to open an activity from the background.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:51Speaker and topic
- 2:54Presentation plan
- 5:25First app launch
- 7:12Extending app lifetime
- 8:17Account sync
- 14:51Service processes and priorities
- 16:38Background music launch
- 18:26Foreground services
- 19:52One Pixel Activity
- 21:16Activity launch limits
- 23:49Limitation mechanisms
- 26:43Chinese launch hacks
- 29:36Surviving doze mode
- 33:21Service work extension
- 34:23Q&A
- 44:11Conclusion
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