Are you sure your phone isn't simply killing off the app? Because just switching between apps does not change the position for me, only if it gets killed.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
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You know what? I think you may be right... Boost seems to reload each time I switch apps. But that's funny, because that behavior doesn't happen with Sync, for example. In order to test I'm using both (and a couple of other apps too). Each time I come back to Sync it's exactly in the point I left. When coming back to Boost I reloads and I go to the top of the posts.
Yeah, this behavior is typical of modded Android phones like Xiaomis, where the background app management has been modded to be far more aggressive in killing background apps. Hopefully there's a setting to turn it off.
Not my case, I guess... I got a Samsung A32 and never modded it.
I don't have this problem. Sounds like your phone's killing the app when you're switching. Maybe it's an older phone with less RAM or something?
It's a Samsung Galaxy A32. Would it qualify as older and/or lacking RAM? Now that I'm thinking of it it's been taking ages to start every time I turn it off or reboot...
You could try disabling battery optimisation for the app. On samsung that's by going to the apps settings and selecting battery usage.
Hey, thanks for the taking the time to help. I've done that but it apparently didn't work.
What phone do you have?
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That's been a long time issue on Boost for Reddit as well. Boost doesn't save its state properly when the activity gets closed, so you get a cold start. Some phones are bad and just kill it outright, but the good ones gives the app an opportunity to save its state.
I usually see it after using multiple heavy apps after Boost, immediately after is a bit weird unless it's a really low end device that just doesn't have the RAM to keep any activities open in the background.
Thanks for helping.
My phone is a Samsung Galaxy A32. And now that I'm looking more closely to its behavior I noticed that it's not only Boost that does that.
Anyway, the funny part is that some apps (Sync for Lemmy being one of these) seems to never loose its state, no matter what I do.
Those apps that don't lose state probably persist their state so that they can resume from where they were.
I don't have that problem. I can swipe between apps without losing my spot.
Easy. Just use another app
Using another app is what triggers the issue.
Thank you for the suggestion.
I like using this app. That's why I'm asking if it already has the feature I need or, if not the case, if it could be implemented so that it becomes even better to use.