I have looked at Kodi and found other things of interest like where and how they pause playback when focus is lost. I've yet to find anything that relates to why Kodi resumes where it was sometimes and restarts from scratch at other times.
David On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 08:47:19AM +0200, René Hansen wrote: > As far as I know, Kodi is open source. So is their Android client: > > https://kodi.wiki/view/Android_development > > Maybe check it out for inspiration. > > > /René > > On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 at 21:35 David Engel <da...@istwok.net> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm one of the developers of the MythTV, open source DVR. Over the > > last several months, we've ported our frontend (aka client) from Linux > > with Qt to run on Android with Qt. It's to the point now that some of > > us are using Nvidia Shield TVs as our primary frontends. > > > > One annoying problem that remains is that resuming the app can > > sometimes take several minutes. By resume I mean switching back to > > the app after the device has been sleeping for several hours or other > > apps have been in use. I know Android doesn't have traditional swap > > like Linux, so I can only assume that the Android system and/or the Qt > > framework is saving and restoring significant process state somewhere. > > What I'd like to do is have our app resume where it was but only if > > that can be done in a few seconds. If it can't resume quickly, then > > want it to disregard any previous state and restart. How can I do > > that? Other apps like Kodi seem to work that way, but I can't figure > > out how they do it. > > > > Thanks, > > David > > -- > > David Engel > > da...@istwok.net > > _______________________________________________ > > Interest mailing list > > Interest@qt-project.org > > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > > -- David Engel da...@istwok.net _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
