Re: Suspend worker thread when in background

Well ok, this sucks.
Is there a way to tell Android to wait a little with either "paging out" 
the memory or even with switching to another app?
Otherwise I have no idea, but maybe someone who (unlike me) has actual 
experience with Android can help ;)

Cheers,
Daniel

On 20.01.2017 01:24, rtrussell wrote:
>
> Shouldn't it? This is what the SDL docs say about the app events
> <https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_EventType#Android.2C_iOS_and_WinRT_Events>:
> "These events must be handled in an event filter, since often the OS
> needs an immediate response and will terminate your process shortly
> after sending the event, and if it sits in the SDL event queue, it'll be
> too late". I interpreted this as meaning that the app must respond in
> less than a frame period (which is typically how long an SDL app might
> take before checking the event queue), so even a few milliseconds might
> be too long.
>
> When I trace the crashes with logcat I see my worker thread trying to
> access memory that Android has already 'paged out' whilst putting my app
> into the background. Subjectively this is happening 'instantly', not
> after a few seconds.
>
> Richard.
>
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