Our App times out or gets closed out by Clover POS automatically

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itadmin asked Nov 4, '22 janieelliott answered Dec 4, '24

Our App times out or gets closed out by Clover POS automatically

We are having a recurring issue where our GivePay Discounts and Mobile Rewards application is being logged out after extended periods of time or after a reboot. We’ve seen other apps persist or restore their connection automatically, when this occurs.

Does anyone have any suggestions for how we can maintain and/or recover lost connections without the user/merchant restarting our app manually? Or is there a way to prompt users to login automatically after each Clover automated logout or POS reboot?

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Jeffrey Blattman ♦♦ commented · Nov 04, 2022 at 07:39 PM

Without knowing what your app is or how it works it's very hard to comment.

What's a "connection" as far as your app is concerned? What's a login? What does it mean to be logged out of your app? How does your app "login"? How does it store the authentication response?

Generally speaking the OS isn't concerned with those details. If you want to persist login sessions across restarts of your app's processes you need to use one of the several mechanisms Android provides for persisting data.

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itadmin Jeffrey Blattman ♦♦ commented · Nov 04, 2022 at 09:14 PM

Our app is a Discount for Cash app that presents customers with a Discount Offers popup screen. The app should only require a merchant login one time from the Clover POS to our servers after mechant setup. Once the app is running, customers are presentend with discount offers after the merchant selects Pay on the Clove Register app. Merchants also can login to view the web based dashboard.

Here is a functional overview video: https://youtu.be/tnU6b4aJhDw

Here is a marketing full overivew: https://youtu.be/DIW6kQ16LIM

Thanks for all your help!

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Jeffrey Blattman ♦♦ itadmin commented · Nov 04, 2022 at 09:43 PM

I'm asking technically how the login to your server works. I'd guess you retrieve some authentication token back from your servers and use that in subsequent calls to your server... but I can only speculate unless you can elaborate.

It's up to your app to persist that taken and load it when your app is started. How are you doing that? When it fails is it because the "token" is invalid, or because it's missing?

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itadmin commented · Nov 10, 2022 at 04:09 PM

Yes, for login we retrieve authentication tokens.
How our app work is when the merchant goes to a transaction from the Register, we pop up with our discount screen, and that portion is working fine. But, When the device is restarted (rebooted) it stops giving that popup from our application in the register when we do a transaction. We have to manually go and start the application.

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Jeffrey Blattman ♦♦ itadmin commented · Nov 10, 2022 at 06:04 PM

Above you were speaking about authentication tokens but I don't see any mention of that here. You need to look at what conditions your app will and will not popup. Can you debug your code and see what condition is failing after the device is rebooted?

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itadmin Jeffrey Blattman ♦♦ commented · Nov 12, 2022 at 09:43 PM

We're not seeing any conditions failing, however it seems our app is in a stopped state or goes to sleep after an extended periord of time, overnight, or a device reboot. After this occurs, to reactivate (wake up) our app, it currently requires user engagment (GivePay icon to be tapped) then when minimined this seems to wake it up in the background and our discount offers screen pops-up correctly after (merchant/user) selects Pay within Clover Register screen.

Can you recomnend a background service or listener code code to help our app wake up everytime the Clover Register app is used?

Note: Please disreagard comments related to authentication tokens as we dont believe they are relevant to the app stop issue, as they are used only when our app is active.

Thank You

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Answer 1 · 2022-11-16T15:22:49Z

itadmin answered Nov 16, '22

Our target SDK is version 25. We think we found a fix, we'll let you know

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Answer 2 · 2022-11-17T02:41:52Z

itadmin answered Nov 17, '22

This is solved. Now we just need our app to be approved for release in the marketplace. Thx!

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Answer 3 · 2024-11-14T18:37:04Z

appnellis answered Nov 14, '24

What was the fix you found?

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Answer 4 · 2024-12-01T18:16:09Z

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Answer 5 · 2024-12-02T03:36:21Z

lisapetrillo answered Dec 2, '24

It sounds frustrating that your app times out or is closed automatically by Clover POS. This can disrupt your workflow significantly. To keep things running smoothly, consider checking for updates or reaching out to customer support. Meanwhile, if you're looking for a fun distraction, try Wordle Unlimited to challenge your brain while you wait for a resolution!

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Answer 6 · 2024-12-04T04:22:04Z

janieelliott answered Dec 4, '24

It sounds frustrating that your app times out or closes automatically with Clover POS. This can disrupt your workflow, much like a challenging level in Moto X3M where you need to stay focused to avoid crashing.

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