#Constant Android Foreground Service

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sinful nacelle
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I am currently working on an app for privte use which tracks an api for me.

I want that api to be checked every 20 / 60 seconds based on wifi or mobile data,

The Issue with this is that theres ForegroundService Timeouts that so far I havent found a way to bypass.

The app can ask for any permissions that are possible. I dont have to worry about things like it not being uploadable to playstore etc.

I currently try to start them with

var fgType = ServiceInfo.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_TYPE_DATA_SYNC | ServiceInfo.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_TYPE_SPECIAL_USE | ServiceInfo.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_TYPE_SYSTEM_EXEMPTED
startForeground(NOTIF_ID, notification, fgType)

I have the manifest permissions for exact alarm for both use and schedule.

drowsy fractalBOT
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sinful nacelle
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bump

hallow vale
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there is one option to do something every 15min (but the lowest is 15min)

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and I think foreground services are an option if it's a long-running task

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other than that: no, you can't really do it

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alternatively, you might be able to use the notification service or something like that to have something that sends an information to the phones and not the phone polling

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basically, you shouldn't constantly do polling

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These are intentional restrictions

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Android doesn't allow "run something all the time"

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sinful nacelle
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I have been running a change that seems to work.

Right now I'm using special use and system exempted without data sync and it seems to work so far.