Make main service a foreground service to avoid throttling in Android 8 (Oreo)

mvglasow commented 6 years ago

As discussed in #218, this makes the main logger service a foreground service, which (as per the docs) will not get throttled by Android 8. This is still untested; I will report back once I’ve had the chance to test it.

This includes some fixes which were necessary to get the project to build:

adding toolchain artifacts to .gitignore (I use Eclipse)
Specify SDK versions in manifest (suppresses some Eclipse IDE errors)
Make gradlew executable (needed to build on Linux)
Update grade build from 2.2.0 to 2.3.0 (needed to build on Ubuntu 18.04, i.e. current LTS, and should be conservative enough to support older Gradle versions)
Treat lint as warnings but do not abort build (there is currently some lint in the project, preventing it from building otherwise)
Fixed typos introduced in an earlier commit, which would prevent a successful build

No fix for Android 9 (Pie) yet, as I am still gathering some information (and have no Android 9 device to test on anyways). If I find out more, I’ll add it here, but ton’t let that keep you from merging—I can always add another PR.

mvglasow commented 6 years ago

As mentioned in the ticket, there currently doesn’t seem to be a fix for Android 9 (Pie). I will test the current fix on 8.1 as soon as I can and report back.

mvglasow commented 6 years ago

Tested today, background performance is back at previous levels. This apparently fixes things on Android 8 and is OK to merge as far as I’m concerned.

wish7code commented 6 years ago

Sounds great! Thanks!!

openbmap / radiocells-scanner-android

Make main service a foreground service to avoid throttling in Android 8 (Oreo) #219