On: Android vendors, don’t kill my app

[colejohnson66]

> Some calls to that API on some OEMs device round alarms to the nearest minute, some to the nearest ten minutes.

WHY? What benefit does that serve?

[apexalpha → colejohnson66]

>WHY?

Because China.

Having lived in China for a few months with an Android phone I can with absolute certainty tell you that this is needed over there. The amount of garbage apps, even from big companies like baidu is enourmous!

And without a Google playstore, or play services, or play safety thing it is an absolute wild-west of background alarms, API calls, battery draining and whatnot.

[mfoy_ → apexalpha]

Sorry, how does rounding to the nearest minute or nearest TEN minutes solve any problems?

Like are apps setting alarms for every 3 seconds or something for no reason??

[apexalpha → mfoy_]

Yes. Rounding to 10 min means you fire up the cpu and do all apps at once then go idle.

[mfoy_ → apexalpha]

Oh, so when we say "alarms" we mean "background processes that occur at set intervals"?

Not literally "alarms", like the ones that ring?

[richardwhiuk → mfoy_]

Both.

[richardwhiuk → colejohnson66]

Rounding timers can greatly increase battery life, at the expense of apps not working - but who checks that apps work on their phone before buying it?

[arantius → colejohnson66]

Limits the potential battery impact.

Without this restriction, how long before an app maker schedules their alarm every millisecond?

[TheCoelacanth → colejohnson66]

Probably a crude way to stop apps from waking themselves every minute.

[WrtCdEvrydy → colejohnson66]

'Performance'

Edit: It's become the new '911'... Family Guy Joke!