Auto play next article not working on Android 10 and above

[KevinSJ]

Issue details

Duplicate?

No

Actual behaviour

• When the app is the backgroud, even when the Auto Play Next is selected, the app will not play the next article automatically. The notification will become "...", and a page turning sound will be played, but no article starts playing.

Expected behaviour

• The app should continue play the next article even when when it's in background.

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Find any article.
2. Start text-to-speech, tick auto play next.
3. Put the app in background and wait till tts finish the current article.

Environment details

• wallabag app version: 2.4.3
• wallabag app installation source (e.g. Gplay, F-Droid, manual): F-Droid
• Android OS version: Android 13
• Android ROM (e.g. stock, LineageOS, SlimRom,…): Samsung OneUI
• Android hardware: Samsung Galaxy S23+
• wallabag server version:
• Do you have Two-Factor-Authentication enabled?: no

Logs

wallabag server

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Web server

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Your experience with wallabag Android app

Really like it, have been using for more than a year, thanks for creating this app.

My Thoughts and Ideas

This functionality works well on my other Android device with Android 9, and [based on this],(https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/background-starts), it is a OS change that caused this. The current app will try to start activity from the background here, but it will fail because of the new change in Android 10 and above.

I had some rough ideas on what changes should be implemented, and actually had actually done the implementation locally. What I had done is to ask the user to allow draw on other app permission, if they allow the permission, the app would be able to start the ReadArticleActivity from background and therefore the next article would be read.

However, what I'm not sure about:

1. where and when should the app ask the user for the draw on other app permsision? (Currently I put it in MainActivity, which I'm not sure is a good idea or not, cause my android dev knowledge is very limited)
2. what should be done if the user do not allow the permisson? (Maybe send a toast?)

I'm willing to create a PR if I can get some help on the questions above (or I can create a PR based on whatever I have at the moment which is partially based on code from ChatGPT).

[cubicgarden]

Having the same problem, using Android 13 and Android 15. Enabled all permissions required, something changed over the last 18 months.