Keep Alive

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Psychopath

Version

2.4 (build 18)  1 version(s)

Keep Alive versions

2.4 (build 18)

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Size

7.4 MiB

Publish Date

2025-11-21

Category

Tools

Package

dev.hossain.keepalive

Minimum OS

Android 7.0

SHA1

b5d94f01b9f688be77f801d5f684a1eab50daddc

Description

A simple app to keep specific apps alive by checking if they are running. If not, they will be attempted* to start for you. ⛔ STOP - Know before you use This app is designed with a very specific use case in mind. It is important to understand what this app does and how. - App is designed to be always running in the foreground to watch and restart other applications. - App is NOT optimized for battery and will cause high battery drain. Ideally, this should not be used on your primary phone that you use daily. - I use this on a secondary phone plugged into a power cable 24/7. - App contains some additional features like Remote Logging and Heartbeat due to my personal needs. However, the app can be used without enabling those features. - See the permission section below to better understand the app. Limitations Despite having many needed permissions, this app may still not work due to the strict security of Android. - Android 16 (API 36) and newer releases are not supported because their expanded background-start and overlay restrictions prevent the watchdog foreground service from reliably launching other apps; testing shows the core use case fails. - One known issue is related to receiving RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED event that is needed to start the watchdog service of this app. However, the RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED event is not delivered until user unlocks the device after phone is restarted or incase phone got soft-started because of very low memory pressure. - In that case, this "Keep Alive" app will fail to start configured apps until the device is unlocked manually. See #70 for technical details: https://github.com/hossain-khan/android-keep-alive/issues/70 - Another known issue is, even though foreground service is running, it does not trigger the periodic checks based on your configured interval. I have noticed this happen in Samsung Galaxy S23, on other phone it works. So, there might be some bug or manufacturer or device specific issue. Take a look into "Monitor Activity" to see how checks are doing.