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How to hide &;Apps are running in the background¬ification on Oreo

Oreo has a useful but annoying feature where you will be notified of every app running in the background. This app fixes that. One of Android's long-time features is the ability for apps to run in the background to pull new information and deliver notifications. This comes with a cost for battery life, so in  Android 8.0 Oreo  the system notifies users when an application is running in the background. This is great on paper, but in reality, all this does is tell me that my music player is indeed playing music, and shame me for still using a  Pebble Classic . Worse yet, there's no way (at the time of writing) to hide this notification, so it just sits there, mocking me. Fortunately, there's a way to fix that. Developer  iboalali  released an application simply titled  Hide "running in the background" Notification , and it does just that: the "apps running the background" notification is gone. The  source code is available  for anyone who (r...