app doesn't stay in the background.

[DeepakTCO]

Steps to reproduce

Play something from some provider (any of your choosing) for example cinestream and choose any source it doesn't matter pause the video then go to another app or home screen use the other app for more than 10 to 15 seconds go back to the cloudstream it will exit the player saying no links found.

Expected behavior

It should have kept the video in the background and when opened the video should have played simply by tapping the play button

Actual behavior

but it doesn't stay on the player and exits immediately

Cloudstream version and commit hash

latest pre release

Android version

android 15

Logcat

Other details

I have already given cloudstream unrestricted battery usage permission so that isnt a solution that's working for me.

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Found provider name: CineStream

[Luna712]

Make sure that battery optimization is disabled for the app. Ive noticed this before as well and it had to do with that for me anyway.

[DeepakTCO]

Make sure that battery optimization is disabled for the app. Ive noticed this before as well and it had to do with that for me anyway.

I did that already still i face this issue. I have mentioned it above too. Still it exits the player i have choose the server again and let it load again which sometimes becomes a hasssle. Like even if you take some time to chat with someone and you come back it's gone

[Luna712]

Make sure that battery optimization is disabled for the app. Ive noticed this before as well and it had to do with that for me anyway.

I did that already still i face this issue. I have mentioned it above too. Still it exits the player i have choose the server again and let it load again which sometimes becomes a hasssle. Like even if you take some time to chat with someone and you come back it's gone

Sorry, I missed that part about unrestricted battery usage.

It might happen if you play it and leave before it loads but ive never encountered it where it randomly exits after loading is complete even when I come back to the app 30 minutes later.

[DeepakTCO]

Make sure that battery optimization is disabled for the app. Ive noticed this before as well and it had to do with that for me anyway.

I did that already still i face this issue. I have mentioned it above too. Still it exits the player i have choose the server again and let it load again which sometimes becomes a hasssle. Like even if you take some time to chat with someone and you come back it's gone

Sorry, I missed that part about unrestricted battery usage.

It might happen if you play it and leave before it loads but ive never encountered it where it randomly exits after loading is complete even when I come back to the app 30 minutes later.

That's very fortunate for you. I can only dream of it. even after it loads completely and I have been watching it for like 40 min out of 1 hr then if I go to another app for 20 seconds even then the whole progress is gone when i come back.

[fire-light42]

Android aggressively kills anything, especially network requests in the background. Nothing in our code actually checks if the app is open when loading links or playing video, so it is not a design decision. Furthermore, even workmanagers are now getting restricted if you do not have a foreground service with a notification.

[CranberrySoup]

We cannot fix the app getting restarted by terrible battery optimizations, but I think it would be possible to save the loaded links to restart playback without booting the user out of the player. It would not be as seamless as you would want, but it would prevent having to reload links.

[DeepakTCO]

Android aggressively kills anything, especially network requests in the background. Nothing in our code actually checks if the app is open when loading links or playing video, so it is not a design decision. Furthermore, even workmanagers are now getting restricted if you do not have a foreground service with a notification.

Can we have foreground service then? It just really kills the experience for me.

[DeepakTCO]

We cannot fix the app getting restarted by terrible battery optimizations, but I think it would be possible to save the loaded links to restart playback without booting the user out of the player. It would not be as seamless as you would want, but it would prevent having to reload links.

That would be amazing too. I will take anything at this point😆

[DeepakTCO]

Sorry to disturb but are you guys planning to add foreground service?

[DeepakTCO]

Sorry to disturb but are you guys planning to add foreground service?

Again sorry for distributing. As a binge watcher it's really annoying for me and would love some solution at least. Wouldn't mind having foreground service so cloudstream can be active in the background.