[kdeconnect] [Bug 393840] KDE Connect connection lost when the Android app is swiped off in Recent App list

[Alexander Potashev]

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[kdeconnect] [Bug 393840] KDE Connect connection lost when the Android app is swiped off in Recent App list

[Albert Vaca]

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--- Comment #6 from Albert Vaca  ---
We now have a persistent notification.

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[kdeconnect] [Bug 393840] KDE Connect connection lost when the Android app is swiped off in Recent App list

[Alexander Potashev]

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[kdeconnect] [Bug 393840] KDE Connect connection lost when the Android app is swiped off in Recent App list

[ximi]

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--- Comment #5 from ximi  ---
Hello!

I think this has been implemented in the last version 1.10.

Though, I'm not a fan of it. I have some questions about it:
- how much power does it need when only the foreground service is working?
- when active, the foreground service will automatically connect to known
computers (if connection lost). What about privacy issues? What is sent on the
network to detect known computers?
- how hard would it be to add an option for the user to disable this option
(and kill the app as soon as we swipe it)?

A bit of background to explain my unwillingness about this feature:
I use KDE Connect with my home computer (mainly in the morning or in the
evening). During the day, I leave to work, so I kill the app, and only reload
it in the evening.
I don't want a service to use battery when I know I won't use it. Also, I don't
want my phone to try to connect to any computer as soon as my Wifi is on...

Finally, I don't want to have a continuous notification for something I don't
use (when I'm at work, I don't care to know that KDE Connect is not connected
to any computer, I already know it). So I disabled this notification from the
settings. And now Android is telling me that KDE Connect is wasting battery and
that I should kill it...

Other than that, I really like this app :D Thanks for it!

Best regards,

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[kdeconnect] [Bug 393840] KDE Connect connection lost when the Android app is swiped off in Recent App list

[Surya Teja K]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393840

--- Comment #4 from Surya Teja K  ---
So I've just checked the commit and I see we are yet to initate the 
resource-heavy, blocking tasks through the service. 

I'll try to come up with a patch in a few days with having the device remain
connected after app is swiped off Recents.

As a WIP, I'll later focus on bringing the plugins to do the same esp.
SftpPlugin.

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[kdeconnect] [Bug 393840] KDE Connect connection lost when the Android app is swiped off in Recent App list

[Matthijs Tijink]

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--- Comment #3 from Matthijs Tijink  ---
We already have implemented this on the "oreo" branch, although the branch
might need some more work to actually work well on Oreo.

The connection is persistent.

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[kdeconnect] [Bug 393840] KDE Connect connection lost when the Android app is swiped off in Recent App list

[Surya Teja K]

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--- Comment #2 from Surya Teja K  ---
That's great news. It is true that swiping the app will close the notifications
however if the notification is Ongoing state i.e.
Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT the notification stays on top untouched.

I tried creating a patch for it but I'm not sure I understand how the
connection is between the device works. Is the network connection persistant
(stay connected forever type) or the connect -> do action -> disconnect type? 

I'm working on the second suggestion and have managed to create a notification
on MainActivity however I'm not sure how to perform the background tasks
through it. 

Some thoughts on this are very appreciated.

Thanks for the advice. I'll keep that in mind.

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[kdeconnect] [Bug 393840] KDE Connect connection lost when the Android app is swiped off in Recent App list

[Matthijs Tijink]

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--- Comment #1 from Matthijs Tijink  ---
We're going to implement the second suggestion sometime this summer (because
it's required for Android Oreo). I'm not sure that will actually fix the issue
though: I think swiping an app away will also close its notification?
Otherwise, I think there's not much we can/should do: if the system requests
the app to shutdown, I think we should listen to that.

PS: swiping away recent apps is not recommended anymore. It slows down future
start-ups of these apps, and Android automatically closes apps if needed.
Unless you don't like the clutter, you're actually slowing down your phone and
wasting battery life.

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