Receiving Incoming SMS post Android 8

Since android 8 the OS has placed may restrictions on how and when can the apps use Broadcast Receivers and Services.



* Background Service Limitations

* Broadcast Limitations






TL;DR: Starting Android 8 the OS will stop your Services and Broadcast Receivers except in some situations mentioned in above documents.


What is then a proper way to detect incoming sms? We can use WorkManager to manually query the SMS to check for new entries every 15 minutes. But what would be a way to get it instantly?


Also the official docs list the SMS_RECEIVE intent in the list of broadcasts that are exceptions to the above rules, but many have found that the receivers and services still get terminated and I have confirmed that by testing it myself.


There are some spend tracking apps out there that still do track the incoming sms regardless of the situation.


Would appreciate any inputs on the situation.


Thanks.