Android Devs: How to Keep Background Services Alive on Samsung, Xiaomi

Android OEMs aggressively kill background processes to save battery, breaking apps that rely on precise timing or location. Developer Haseeb Ahmed shares how his app Muffle uses WorkManager with expedited jobs and a low-priority foreground service to stay reliable. The most effective fix remains guiding users to manually disable battery optimizations via dontkillmyapp.com.