[CB-13975] Android MainActivity cdvStartInBackground=true fails to fire pause event

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-android
• Assignee: Joey Robert Bowser
• Reporter: Rich T
• Created: 14/Mar/18 19:57
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:51
• Resolved: 27/Mar/18 20:51

Description

The MainActivity created from the template that adds support for starting the app in the background via the cdvStartInBackground flag doesn't fire the pause event. Debugging the Android code it looks like onPause is called before the messageChannel is set so the send event is dropped.

There should probably be a pendingPause flag like the pendingResume.

The reason this is a problem is that I am using the phonegap-push-plugin to wake the app in the background and I want to know that the app is in the background so I can disable polling requests which are a data and battery drain, currently I cannot do this and the app can just be sitting there in the background consuming resources it doesn't need.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #435