WebSocket Connection Lifecycle in Mobile Apps

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Deep dive into the often-misunderstood interaction between WebSocket ping/pong frames, TCP keep-alive timers, and mobile OS network state transitions (doze mode, app backgrounding). Covers building a deterministic reconnection state machine in Kotlin with exponential backoff, jitter, and message queue draining — with real latency numbers from production showing how naive implementations silently drop 3-8% of messages during network transitions.

Published 29 May 2026

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Deep dive into the often-misunderstood interaction between WebSocket ping/pong frames, TCP keep-alive timers, and mobile OS network state transitions (doze mode, app backgrounding). Covers building a deterministic reconnection state machine in Kotlin with exponential backoff, jitter, and message queue draining — with real latency numbers from production showing how naive implementations silently drop 3-8% of messages during network transitions.
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