Yep, that's right - it's a helper service which runs as a keep-alive and prevents Android from suspending / killing the core Linphone process while it's backgrounded. Quite a few apps have adopted this approach since Android altered how it handles apps which require background notifications or establish sockets for things like VoIP.
Push notifications and background services were a bit of a mess a while ago ( https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-your-push-notifications-never-see-the-light-of-day-3fa297520793) and unfortunately on some flagship devices are still a mess without an active notification service handling the background tasks. On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, 22:54 Brian J. Murrell, <[email protected]> wrote: > When I click on "Enable service notification" I get an icon in the > notification area. > > Is there anything more to that option than just an icon in the > notification area? > > I believe I have noticed that receiving calls while Linphone is not the > app running in the foreground and showing on the screen doesn't happen > without this service notification being enabled even when I am using > push notifications. > > Is that belief correct? > > I am on Oreo. > > Additionally, is it intentional that this option is not sticky across > restarts of linphone-android? I'm happy to file a ticket if not. > > Cheers, > b. > > _______________________________________________ > Linphone-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/linphone-users >
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