How do I avoid that my App enters optimization on Samsung devices

Question

Smart manager kills an app that hasn\'t been used for 3 days. My app does some background work and hence, the user doesn\'t need to open it.

What can I do so that it

Answer 1

Sadly, there is currently no way to prevent this.

The only thing you can do is instruct users to disable optimization for your app.

I did some research about this myself not long ago, here are some links I saved that might be interesting for you

https://news.samsung.com/global/smart-manager-the-way-to-keep-your-galaxy-smartphone-as-good-as-new-always

http://developer.samsung.com/forum/thread/smart-manager-kills-my-alarms/202/288300?boardName=General&listLines=15&startId=zzzzz~&curPage=3

http://developer.samsung.com/forum/thread/samsung-smart-manager-is-preventing-alarmmanager-to-work-correctly/201/288546?boardName=SDK&startId=zzzzz~&searchSubId=0000000001

Also, here is a code snippet that launches the smart manager app's BatteryActivity (if it's installed) to help users to disable the optimization:

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.samsung.android.sm", "com.samsung.android.sm.ui.battery.BatteryActivity"));
try {
    getActivity().startActivity(intent);
} catch (ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
    Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "Smart manager not installed on this device", Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
            .show();
}