In Android i want to run websockets in background

[Lejla94]

I am trying to setup websockets and Iroh package in Tauri.
Iroh is for peer to peer communication.
The issue is when the app goes to background it loses the connection with the websocket.

I used this package for websockets
tokio_tungstenite connect_async
Can i have some info on how to secure my app being connected to the server and accept peer to peer messages?

[FabianLars]

the only way to have long-running background tasks on android are background/foreground services which we do not support yet and afaik would also be kotlin only. You could probably still load rust libraries similar to this but normally they are kotlin-only. Either way, the webview and the normal tauri "backend" won't be running.

Welcome in the beatiful world of mobile development :)

[Lejla94]

Thanks.
My first Android App will have no use and i should somehow justify that to the person i promised to make an app.
My Kotlin knowledge is limited, i will try to use Kotlin, cause i will hate to not achieve this.
I appreciate the response.
So Dioxus and Leptos have the same issue?

[FabianLars]

yes. android is very strict about background usage and will kill your main app processes very quickly. That's the same for dioxus and leptos - though leptos has no mobile support yet, only web which is even worse. Dioxus still uses our libraries under the hood btw but anyway, it's still an unsolved problem there as well DioxusLabs/dioxus#3826

[FabianLars]

but i mean, even kotlin-native apps have this "problem", it's just how it works 🤷