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+/*
+    Copyright 2013-2017 appPlant GmbH
+
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+    or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+    distributed with this work for additional information
+    regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+    to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+    "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+    with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+    software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+    "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+    KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+    specific language governing permissions and limitations
+    under the License.
+ */
+
+package de.appplant.cordova.plugin.background;
+
+import android.app.Activity;
+import android.app.ActivityManager;
+import android.content.Context;
+import android.content.Intent;
+import android.os.Build;
+import android.view.View;
+
+import org.apache.cordova.CordovaInterface;
+import org.apache.cordova.CordovaWebView;
+
+import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.util.List;
+
+class BackgroundExt {
+
+    // Weak reference to the cordova interface passed by the plugin
+    private final WeakReference<CordovaInterface> cordova;
+
+    // Weak reference to the cordova web view passed by the plugin
+    private final WeakReference<CordovaWebView> webView;
+
+    /**
+     * Initialize the extension to perform non-background related tasks.
+     *
+     * @param cordova The cordova interface.
+     * @param webView The cordova web view.
+     */
+    private BackgroundExt(CordovaInterface cordova, CordovaWebView webView) {
+        this.cordova = new WeakReference<CordovaInterface>(cordova);
+        this.webView = new WeakReference<CordovaWebView>(webView);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Executes the request.
+     *
+     * @param action  The action to execute.
+     * @param cordova The cordova interface.
+     * @param webView The cordova web view.
+     */
+    static void execute(String action, CordovaInterface cordova,
+                        CordovaWebView webView) {
+
+        BackgroundExt ext = new BackgroundExt(cordova, webView);
+
+        if (action.equalsIgnoreCase("optimizations")) {
+            ext.disableWebViewOptimizations();
+        }
+
+        if (action.equalsIgnoreCase("background")) {
+            ext.moveToBackground();
+        }
+
+        if (action.equalsIgnoreCase("foreground")) {
+            ext.moveToForeground();
+        }
+
+        if (action.equalsIgnoreCase("tasklist")) {
+            ext.excludeFromTaskList();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Move app to background.
+     */
+    private void moveToBackground() {
+        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
+
+        intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
+        getActivity().startActivity(intent);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Move app to foreground.
+     */
+    private void moveToForeground() {
+        Activity    app = getActivity();
+        String pkgName  = app.getPackageName();
+
+        Intent intent = app
+                .getPackageManager()
+                .getLaunchIntentForPackage(pkgName);
+
+        intent.addFlags(  Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT
+                        | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);
+
+        app.startActivity(intent);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Enable GPS position tracking while in background.
+     */
+    private void disableWebViewOptimizations() {
+        Thread thread = new Thread(){
+            public void run() {
+                try {
+                    Thread.sleep(1000);
+                    getActivity().runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
+                        @Override
+                        public void run() {
+                            View view = webView.get().getEngine().getView();
+
+                            try {
+                                Class<?> xWalkCls = Class.forName(
+                                        "org.crosswalk.engine.XWalkCordovaView");
+
+                                Method onShowMethod =
+                                        xWalkCls.getMethod("onShow");
+
+                                onShowMethod.invoke(view);
+                            } catch (Exception e){
+                                view.dispatchWindowVisibilityChanged(View.VISIBLE);
+                            }
+                        }
+                    });
+                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                    // do nothing
+                }
+            }
+        };
+
+        thread.start();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Exclude the app from the recent tasks list.
+     */
+    private void excludeFromTaskList() {
+        ActivityManager am = (ActivityManager) getActivity()
+                .getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
+
+        if (am == null || Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 21)
+            return;
+
+        try {
+            Method getAppTasks = am.getClass().getMethod("getAppTasks");
+            List tasks = (List) getAppTasks.invoke(am);
+
+            if (tasks == null || tasks.isEmpty())
+                return;
+
+            ActivityManager.AppTask task = (ActivityManager.AppTask) tasks.get(0);
+            Method setExcludeFromRecents = task.getClass()
+                    .getMethod("setExcludeFromRecents", boolean.class);
+
+            setExcludeFromRecents.invoke(task, true);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The activity referenced by cordova.
+     *
+     * @return The main activity of the app.
+     */
+    Activity getActivity() {
+        return cordova.get().getActivity();
+    }
+
+}
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