Topic

Mobile app lifecycle constraints

The rules by which iOS and Android suspend, cache or kill running apps, and the limited execution budgets they grant to work that must continue while an app is not in front of the user.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

React Native uploads need a database row and a native session to outlive the lock screen

A suspended app takes the fetch promise with it and comes back with a fresh JS runtime, so the only durable parts of an upload are the row you wrote before it started and the server state you reconcile against.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+14
Incentives20
Confidence56