Android Vitals and Stuck Wakelocks?

Question

We have an alert / warning about stuck wake locks in the new Vitals section of the Play Store Developer Console. The apps that have this alert are all audio apps and the offending WakeLock Tag appears to be the AudioMix lock. There is a note about apps that may need long-running locks, such as streaming music, which leads me to believe this warning can be ignored for these particular apps.

I'd like to get some verification on these particular vitals. If these alerts for locks such as AudioMix are a normal thing, can they be safely ignored? Also how are these vital statistics effecting our Play Store rankings, especially if a stuck wake lock for an audio app is considered normal?

Any information about this is appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes, you can safely ignore AudioMix lock if your app is streaming or is a music player (even is local), and it will not impact in your app's ranking or something like this.

According to the support page Monitor your app's technical performance with Android vitals, the issues are excessive wakeups (not a long-running lock), excessive Wi-Fi scans (background), excessive network usage (background) and other similar behaviors.