Nostr Web Client

I guess I could also just imitate pokey and do the same background processing in Flotilla directly. But the limitations just seem so severe. From perplexity:

- Android allows background services, but recent OS versions (Android 8/Oreo and above) impose strict limits on background processing to save battery life.

- Foreground services can run persistently but must display a notification, which is not ideal for most user experiences.

- Periodic background work can be scheduled using WorkManager, but the frequency is limited and not real-time.

Vitor Pamplona 6mo ago

No, please don't do that. If all apps are running in the background, there won't be enough battery. Pokey should do that for you and pass the event to your app for display.

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hodlbod 6mo ago

Even with background workers? I'm trying to design something for normies without pokey, obviouspy if they have pokey installed that would be preferable. Is there a way to detect if pokey is installed?

Vitor Pamplona 6mo ago

Yep. Pokey has a lot of trouble staying alive already. If we have too many of these background apps, the OS will just start killing them randomly.