[tor-bugs] #34268 [Circumvention/Snowflake]: Creating a service to do the work in the background and implementing a wakelock.

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#34268: Creating a service to do the work in the background and implementing a
wakelock.
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     Reporter:  HashikD                  |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  task                     |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                   |  Milestone:
    Component:  Circumvention/Snowflake  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                   |   Keywords:
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 For the application to act as a proxy in the background we need to run it
 as a service. In Android there are two types of services...
 **Background service**: Counter-intuitively this is not what we are going
 to use since the Android system will kill the service after the user
 leaves the application.\\

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 **Foreground service**: This service requires us to run a notification
 constantly. But this service will work even if the user leaves the
 application.\\
 **Problem**: Service gets killed if the screen is turned off.\\
 **Solution**: Implementing Android's Wakelock feature so that the Android
 system will not kill our service.

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