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Show a notice when battery "Restricted" freezes the widget - #88
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With battery usage set to Restricted (background usage off), Android gives the app no alarms, jobs or BOOT_COMPLETED in the background, so the widget silently stops refreshing until the app is opened. Apps can't lift the restriction, and Play only allows the battery-optimization exemption for core functions a weather widget doesn't qualify for, so the standard fix is to detect it and point the user at settings. - WidgetUtils.isWidgetBackgroundRestricted: ActivityManager .isBackgroundRestricted() and at least one widget placed (no notice for people who don't use the widget), exposed as method isWidgetBackgroundRestricted. - Home screen: one-line notice above the weather card with a Settings button opening the app's App info page; re-checked on every resume, so it goes away once background usage is allowed. - New string widgetBackgroundRestricted in all 36 locales (drafted, needs native-speaker review), new a11y id mirrored in e2e/a11y_ids.js, and docs/ai/widget.md notes plus an adb diagnosis row. The new Robolectric tests pin sdk = R: without @config this suite runs at API 23, where isBackgroundRestricted() doesn't exist. Verified on the API 30 emulator: restricted without a widget shows no notice; with a widget shows it; Settings opens App info; allowing background usage and returning removes it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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With battery usage set to Restricted (background usage off), Android gives the app no alarms, jobs or BOOT_COMPLETED in the background, so the widget silently stops refreshing until the app is opened. Apps can't lift the restriction, and Play only allows the battery-optimization exemption for core functions a weather widget doesn't qualify for, so the standard fix is to detect it and point the user at settings.
The new Robolectric tests pin sdk = R: without @config this suite runs at API 23, where isBackgroundRestricted() doesn't exist.
Verified on the API 30 emulator: restricted without a widget shows no notice; with a widget shows it; Settings opens App info; allowing background usage and returning removes it.