I work on an Android application that uses voice recognition for user interaction and communicates to a server to process the responses. The users will use the application continuously for several hours at a time. The app holds a partial wake lock to keep the device running but allow the display to turn off to conserve battery power. This has worked fine until Marshmallow. The Doze feature disables network access, preventing the application from working. I have disabled battery optimization for the app, but it still fails to communicate with the server properly after running for an hour or two. If the app holds a full wake lock, the application properly communicates to the server, but the screen stays on and drains the battery too quickly. Using GCM as recommended by Google is not an option, since the communication is initiated by the device whenever a user speaks.
Is there any way to disable the network access limitations of the Doze feature and still allow the screen to turn off? Ironically, the Doze feature will cause us a much larger battery drain, if requesting a full wake lock is the only solution. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/8863ab11-596b-41d2-9fe7-d7288b0f9ad2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
