Android Q will kill third party 'App Locker' apps

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Third party App locker (such as mine AppLock AppLock | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository) may not be work in Android Q.

As ‘App locker’ apps run a service in background(Foreground service in Oreo) and starts a foreground activity (i.e. lock screen) whenever a locked apps opened. but as proposed in Android Q background service can’t start a foreground services ( Restricciones para iniciar actividades en segundo plano  |  Desarrolladores de Android  |  Android Developers).

Note:Stock Android doesn’t a privacy App lock as most of stock ROM have inbuilt app lock

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One of my Apps is affected by this too. I’m currently thinking about using the “draw over other Apps” permission as workaround

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Looks like Q has a bunch of new restrictions :-/

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