Your typical Android mobile app is a skilled multi-tasker, capable of performing complex and long-running tasks in the background (such as handling network requests or transferring data) while ...

When you start out building Android applications, one of the first things you'll generally familiarize yourself with is the activity lifecycle. Often this familiarity is triggered by wondering why ...

One complaint that Android app developers (and end users) have are the differing “restrictions on foreground services and background work” across devices. Google is addressing background ...

Android’s open nature leads to some disparity with how apps and features can work across devices from different smartphone makers. Over the last couple of years, background app performance has been a ...

There are three things that are certain in life: death, taxes, and Google restricting background work. With every new Android release, Google seemingly further restricts what apps running in the ...