Android Question Staying alive - or trying to

The OS doesn't like apps that run forever. With a foreground service and a partial lock your app should theoretically run forever but practically it will be killed at some point.

This app control feature seems particular to android (may iOS too). A phone or tablet is just a computer and it's annoying that the OS does what it wants. A company computer manager would be horrified if they turned up to work only to find that their UNIX system had decided to shut down the corporate database just because it had been running for a while. I don't know if you have any direct contact with google with all your experience and expertise but it would be nice if we could at least have the option of full control over apps we write ourselves.

In my case, the app is stopped every morning, so I'm not trying to run it continuously. It seems that the OS notices that it *could* run continuously and then strips the lock permission from the app so that when I start it up again, the PartialLock has no effect at all. The only way around this is to reinstall the app from the apk file.