Android app shuts down when screen goes off [Ticket In]

[Jan_Koudijs]

I ran into the same issue after my tablet got updated to Android 8 about a year ago:

Tablet standby causes Roon app to crash on Android 8 [Ticket In]

First a bit of (Android) history: I’m using a Nexus 7 (running Android 6) as a Roon remote without any standby issues. I’m also using a Pixel C as a remote, and while it was running on Android 7 it had standby issues but I found a workaround for it. I wrote about this in another post: With the battery optimization switched off I used the Pixel C as a well behaving remote for about a year. A week ago I updated to Android 8 and things got worse. When the tablet switches to standby, due to a …

The workaround I use is in the fourth post.