Google has done a lot to better manage Android’s background resource usage over the last few updates, and Oreo brings another enhancement to the table with Background Execution Limits. Simply, this limits what an app can do when running in the background—both in resources used and broadcasts requested.
Background Execution Limits are designed to be automatic in Android Oreo—you don’t have to do anything to take advantage of them…as long as your apps were developed with Android 8.0 Oreo in mind, and coded to take advantage of this feature.
Sadly, not every developer goes through the trouble to add that code. And if any of the apps you use are old and no longer in development, well, they won’t automatically limit themselves either. The good news is that you can essentially “force” this feature to work with older apps thanks to a toggle provided in Oreo.
Note that this is different than Android’s stock Battery Optimization feature—these two things really work together, but Background Execution Limits is designed to better control resources (like RAM and CPU cycles) for an…
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