Android: Keep a Timer running when app swapped out?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By duke_meister
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Can I have a timer in my app continuing to tick over when my app is backgrounded? I guess this will relate to the wider issue of background processing which I couldn’t find any posts about.