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app, cmd/gogio: add android foreground permission and service #67

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This adds the permission android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE and adds
GioForegroundService which creates the tray Notification necessary to
implement the Foreground Service. The package foreground includes the method
StartForeground, which on android, notifies the system that the program
will perform background work and that it shouldn't be killed. It returns
a channel that should be closed when the background work is complete.

See https://developer.android.com/guide/components/foreground-services
and https://developer.android.com/training/notify-user/build-notification

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I've tested this with my application; but feel that there could be better integration with the notification library gioui.org/x/notify, so that the foreground service can share the same notification channels, in particular so that the text of the background notification can be updated. I'm not sure that this change should depend on that package though, but I think that the Service class needs to be declared in the application manifest. Any help resolving/improving the above details is very much appreciated.

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Nice work, thank you.

I've tested this with my application; but feel that there could be better integration with the notification library gioui.org/x/notify, so that the foreground service can share the same notification channels, in particular so that the text of the background notification can be updated. I'm not sure that this change should depend on that package though, but I think that the Service class needs to be declared in the application manifest. Any help resolving/improving the above details is very much appreciated.

Why share notifications with niotify? This change is for foreground work, niotify is for notifications. However, see my review comments for a suggestion to customize foreground notification content text.

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Oh, and remember to sign-off your change and squash commits.

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Nice work, thank you.

I've tested this with my application; but feel that there could be better integration with the notification library gioui.org/x/notify, so that the foreground service can share the same notification channels, in particular so that the text of the background notification can be updated. I'm not sure that this change should depend on that package though, but I think that the Service class needs to be declared in the application manifest. Any help resolving/improving the above details is very much appreciated.

Why share notifications with niotify? This change is for foreground work, niotify is for notifications. However, see my review comments for a suggestion to customize foreground notification content text.

well, the foreground service requires a notification - the code here just sets a static string which isn't very appealing. Android applications using foreground services tend to have some kind of content displayed in the service notification and it would be useful to have a clean way to interact with the notification - possibly the StartForeground method should return or accept this as an argument - and this is where it starts to overlap with the functionality provided by niotify.

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mixmasala commented Nov 19, 2021

edit: fixed

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I've refactored this PR to address issues raised above and changed the API to include setting the notification ID, title, and text.

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edit: stopped using startForegroundService because I saw some crash with resuming the application from background with same error as: transistorsoft/nativescript-background-geolocation-lt#121 (comment) . Instead startService is used, which fixes this crash.

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Leaving a few review comments for your follow-ups.

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This adds the permission android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE and adds
GioForegroundService which creates the tray Notification necessary to
implement the Foreground Service.

This adds the method Start to package app, which on android, notifies
the system that the program will perform background work and that it
shouldn't be killed. The foreground service is stopped using the cancel
function returned by Start(). If multiple calls to Start are made, the
foreground service will not be stopped until the final cancel function
has been called.

See https://developer.android.com/guide/components/foreground-services
and https://developer.android.com/training/notify-user/build-notification

Signed-off-by: Masala <masala@riseup.net>
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dosgo commented Sep 24, 2024

Is there any progress on this? Write Android applications in pure Go by adding services and BroadcastReceiver support.

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