Android - How to Enable Autostart option programmatically in Xiaomi devices?

Question

I am developing an android application in which I want to display the Push notification.

It has displayed well in most of the devices except Xiaomi phones (I am using Redmi Note 4). The problem that I found is, it is because of Autostart option provided by Xiomi which will be disabled by default and the user need to enable it manually.

But I wonder that some of the Android Apps I could see enabling this option without any user interaction Ex: WhatsApp. If I try reinstalling WhatsApp and see the Autostart option , it is enabled!

I am unable to convince our client by telling it is the feature of Xiomi like devices as he is pointing out some apps which is working fine like the example I have mentioned above.

This question has been asked by some other people

Add my app to AutoStart apps list in android programmatically

How to check AutoStart is enabled for our App in Xiaomi manufacturer mobile device Programmatically

But I could not see any answers for them and Posting here with the hope that someone will have an answer for this.

Answer 1

The autostart feature will get enabled automatically when you will download the app from playstore if xiaomi OS wants it as apps like amazon ,google IO etc are also not allowed to autostart ,In this case you have to go to Security permissions -> autostart -> then enable autostart from there.You cannot make the app autostart by code all you can do is you can show a dialog to enable auto start and take the user to the autostart activity but this is not a good option as you cannot check whether autostart is enabled or not. This is done by Mi in MIUI8 for saving battery .This issue wasted my 2 days XD

You can refer to this article.