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If your app is in the background it shouldn't need a load of resources. These resource limits are there to prevent bad developers using all your resources in the background. If you are having issues with this limit you are probably one of these bad developers. Removing the limit is not the solution, writing a better app is.

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So how do you propose to write a sleep tracking app that doesn't run a background process for longer than 20 minutes?

In a way that it has to be explicitly allowed to do so by the user.

I don't need an online store app to eat up my phone's battery, and disabling background by default seems to be only option here.

That’s a solved problem on iOS. iOS itself keeps track of measurements coming from your device even when it’s sleep using the power efficient Mx chip. Applications can then - with user permissions - request the data when needed. This has been the case since 2013.

The app doesn’t need to be running in the background.

I have a Xiaomi and oneplus phone, neither of them have ever closed a background app so I dunno what you are talking about, but if phones are doing that then, yea fair enough thats a problem.

The wording in the linked website is talking more specifically about cpu limits, which is how most os manage background resources, whats the problem with that?

Sleep tracking is a good example you should use an event system, but developers are lazy and use "while (true) {}", which is my point.

Are fitness tracking apps able to run uninterrupted in your Xiaomi phone? Did you change any relevant settings?

I had a huwaii fit-bit-thing for a few months it uses two apps and I had issues getting them to talk to other software, but no problems tracking or shutting down, didn't change any settings. Maybe other apps have problems but theirs worked fine.

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