Not all of the best Android phones and tablets work alike, and some devices have aggressive battery-saving software that can stop background notifications from coming through reliably. The Android team at Google I/O explained this week why that's an ongoing issue. Modern versions of Android strike a decent balance between extending battery life (by pausing or limiting background tasks) and still staying connected to cloud servers that provide push notifications. However, some manufacturers take that a step further for their devices, by implementing more battery-saving techniques that can lead to background services breaking. OnePlus has had issues over the years with unreliable notifications, as well as the Chinese versions of many Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo phones . Some of Google's Android team held a Q&A panel at Google I/O this week, where an app developer asked what they could do in their app to work around aggressive battery life management on some devices. Dianne Hackborn, a long-running software engineer for Android, replied, "We realize this has been an increasingly painful thing for app developers." Play Video "Android is not like Google's operating system," Hackborn said, "the OEMs […] do a lot of customizations and innovation on the platform, so there's… Read full this story
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