Closing the application from the task manager(there could be more ways) is not ending the session

[atulgpt]

When user closes the application, it doesn't end the session and hence doesn't fire the session.end method.

I think this could be due to the fact there is no reliable way to listen to application close event in android, but in that case should we persist the session start event and close the previous session in the next application launch?

[breedx-splk]

Thanks @atulgpt. This was never part of the original design, but I think it's a reasonable idea to attempt. We have to be a little bit careful about this, however, because there's no guarantee that the shutdown hooks will be called, and even when they are, there is limited work that can be performed. Furthermore, we'd need to be careful that event generate (session.end) happens before any other flushing of export data.

Similarly, I know that some other implementations do the thing your'e describing -- writing session state information to disk occasionally so that it can be flushed on relaunch. This also won't be guaranteed, because the user may never launch the app again, but it could help to create a more complete pictures in many scenarios.