Jorge Martín

@lehtimaeki@snapp.social Matrix is used for FOSDEM every year and it seems to work well enough. Disclaimer: I work at Element, building Matrix clients 😅

#androiddev is there any place where I could ask some Google dev about WorkManager's behaviour on Android 15+? We're having some issues related to background network access (https://developer.android.com/about/versions/15/behavior-changes-all#background-network-access) that are still happening when using WorkManager for fetching the data associated with push notifications (the context is an encrypted IM that only sends minimal data in the pushes).

I understand what we should do is probably schedule the tasks using some NetworkType or NetworkRequest constraint, but using NetworkType.CONNECTED won't work for customers that are behind a VPN or in an air-gapped environment since it performs a request to gen_204 google URL that may not be available, and I'm not sure if NetworkType.UNMETERED or NetworkRequest with NET_CAPABILITY_INTERNET would be enough to have WorkManager temporarily grant our app internet connectivity and prevent those UnknownHostExceptions we're seeing.

This seems to be poorly documented, so we're not sure what the right behavior is, to be honest.