Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read
Lyla, thanks a lot for this great post!
I really like this turn, where Google finally starts to explain the entire picture (versus leaving the developers on their own, spending years to find out the truth hidden behind the scene). Specifically I’ve been impressed by an explicit mentioning of process shutdown being a part of a normal Android app life-cycle. I learned it myself, but without an explicit info from Google, it’s hard to share this knowledge among team members. Basically, developers tend to think “well, if OS kills my app process, then what can we do about this?”, and thus we have lots of Android apps on Google Play Store which do not support temporary process shutdown in way user would expect.