MIUI autostart option

[barteqcz]

I have a suggestion for SD Maid to use autostart in MIUI. The point is that if we do not enable the autostart option for the SD Maid application, then each time the application is closed, the ability to enable AppCleaner will be broken. That's because the accessibility service turns off then, causing some weird bug, and you have to turn it back on, which is incredibly inconvenient if it's there every time you restart the app.

A potential solution would be to either enable autostart by default after application installation if MIUI is detected, or add information about the need to enable this feature in the list of required permissions, shown after the application installation.

Cheers!

[d4rken]

I'm not sure what MIUI means with "autostart" is it the inclusion of an ON_BOOT receiver?

[barteqcz]

it's something what's fully called 'background autostart' and it allows apps to start in the background automatically. However, I don't know about details of this feature, but many apps use this by default, like Messenger, Google Photos, and many other apps.

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[d4rken]

It has been there the whole time. But it's a lot of text. Users don't like reading text 😉. Not sure how I can make this easier. Would love to automate the setup here, but have not found a way.
Any ideas?

[barteqcz]

Good question. You're 100% right, that it's better to avoid putting such a long text there 😄. It would be nice if there was any guide on how to apply that autostart by default, but that's still a good question too.

[barteqcz]

I found something, that might help you!
https://dontkillmyapp.com/xiaomi
https://github.com/XomaDev/MIUI-autostart

[d4rken]

That's very interesting. I could add a specific setup card for this, 🤔

Not sure if using org.lsposed.hiddenapibypass will get me intro trouble with big G 🤔.

[barteqcz]

Yeah, honestly - good question.