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by heavyset_go 322 days ago
No, it's just Android working the way it was designed. Long running server or VM-esque apps are incompatible with Android's ideal process management and scheduling.

Apps are meant to be started and destroyed dynamically when the user does something else, their phone is idle for a long time, battery life is low, etc. If something is in the background it's fair game to kill.
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codedokode 322 days ago
It could simply pause or throttle apps instead of killing. Also I am sure Google Play Services are not killed randomly.
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heavyset_go 321 days ago
Yeah, Google has control of the OS and can easily choose to fix the issue.

It's just an issue that plagued the last 15 years of attempts at getting Linux running in VMs/containers/etc on Android, and that's the reason it's an issue.

Developers might be able to work around the limitation by building dynamic suspending and restoring of VM state into their Linux launcher and try to make it play nice with Android.

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