Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

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Whenever an app runs in the background, it consumes some of the limited resources of your device, such as the RAM. This can result in an impaired user experience, especially if the user is using a ...

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Let's say that we continue exposing the android activity via some method such as Jni.androidActivity(int engineId). As long as we're running this on the main thread, in a synchronous method, it's fine ...