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# Understanding App Process

## How App works

*<mark style="color:purple;">**TL;DR**</mark>* The app connects to [Discord's Gateway](https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway) and updates the user's <mark style="color:purple;">rich presence.</mark>

### A More Detailed Explanation

The app uses [Long Running Background services](https://developer.android.com/guide/components/services#:~:text=foreground%20services%20directly.-,Background,usually%20be%20a%20background%20service.) which maintains <mark style="color:purple;">Websocket</mark> connections to send <mark style="color:purple;">rich presence data</mark>. This process runs until the <mark style="color:purple;">rpc</mark> is switched off by user or when the device goes to sleep.

Rpc runs on [Threads](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Thread) with a 15second interval to send pings to Discord' Gateway to keep the connection alive.&#x20;