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Originally Posted by bobstro
That would be one alternative, and certainly use less battery than leaving wifi on 7x24, but you could also use Tasker to do something like turn wifi on for a few minutes any time your reading app is loaded, otherwise leaving it off. Combined with Android's background sync settings, and assuming your app respected those settings, it would allow "bursty" sync whenever reading or on demand rather than continual sync.
I'm understanding that your wifi turned off occasionally (though frequently) when using various apps, not constantly. In any case, it really wouldn't matter since Tasker is very battery efficient and only activates when conditions match, so "constantly" turning wifi back on wouldn't be a big use of battery. Of course, you'd briefly lose wifi when disconnected, but it'd come back quickly.
You can do either, actually. (I made an edit to my original, confusing last line in my 1st post.) Tasker can respond to events (a trigger) or states (something is happening now, react so long as this continues).
It's not trivial to configure, but a great tool for power users.
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If wifi is only on when the reading app is initially loaded my reading position would not sync and be available on a different device. That is the type of sync I wanted. I'm not sure exactly how my preferred reading app syncs except it definitely needed to sync at app exit.
My wifi turned itself off constantly - every time I turned it on it was guaranteed to not remain on even if I was actively using it like searching for an app in Google play. When I found the app I wanted and tapped install it couldn't install because wifi was off.