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Description
A bounty has been opened for this feature request, with funding being provided via donations by the Monero community:
Copying description here from that bounty:
The current user experience on mobile wallets without light-wallet servers is very poor unless a user regularly opens his wallet to allow it to sync.
A strong solution for this would be to allow mobile wallets to perform background syncs (especially when on wifi/plugged in, like at night) using only view keys, so no spend keys are kept "hot" without the user's active consent/auth.
Once this is implemented, the user can expect to at most have to sync <1d of blocks before spending.
Payout criteria:
Wallet is able to sync up in the background, without the wallet open
User can specify to only sync on wifi and/or when plugged in
Code is open-sourced