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Humayun Kabir
Humayun Kabir

Reputation: 611

android service need to stop after sometime

I am running a Service using AlarmManager. The Service is running ok and I am stopping the Service manually (clicking a Button), but I need to stop the Service after sometime (it may be 10 seconds). I can use this.stopSelf();, but how do I call this.stopSelf(); after some given time?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5225

Answers (5)

Dezo
Dezo

Reputation: 871

In Kotlin you can use this code to stop service inside the onStartCommand() method:

 Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).postDelayed({ stopSelf() }, 10000)

Upvotes: 1

tony9099
tony9099

Reputation: 4717

This can easily be accomplished using timer and timerTask together.

I still do not know why this answer was not suggested and instead the provided answers do not provide the direct and simple solution.

In the service subclass, create these globally (you can create them not globally, but you might bump into issues)

//TimerTask that will cause the run() runnable to happen.
TimerTask myTask = new TimerTask()
{
    public void run()
    {
        stopSelf();
    }
};


//Timer that will make the runnable run.
Timer myTimer = new Timer();

//the amount of time after which you want to stop the service
private final long INTERVAL = 5000; // I choose 5 seconds

Now inside your onCreate() of the service, do the following :

myTimer.schedule(myTask, INTERVAL);

This should stop the service after 5 seconds.

Upvotes: 5

Aswin Kumar
Aswin Kumar

Reputation: 5278

  1. Create an Intent to start the Service. Set the action to a custom action, say "com.yourapp.action.stopservice".
  2. Using AlarmManager, start the Intent to start the Service (whatever you are doing right now). This will be delivered to the onStartCommand() of the Service, if it is is already running.
  3. In onStartCommand(), check the action of the incoming Intent. If action.equals("com.yourapp.action.stopservice"), stop the Service using this.stopSelf().

Upvotes: 0

Andrei Mankevich
Andrei Mankevich

Reputation: 2273

May be you should consider using IntentService? It will be stopped when there is no work for it so you don't need to manage its state by yourself.

Upvotes: 3

waqaslam
waqaslam

Reputation: 68177

Use postDelayed method of Handler within service to get it done. For example:

new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
@Override
    public void run() {
        stopSelf();
    }
}, 10000);    //will stop service after 10 seconds

Upvotes: 3

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