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Reputation: 475

Android remote Service start and stop

I'm developing an app that makes asynchronous calls to server for notifications. Everything works fine in the main activity. Now what's bothering me, that i need a service that would poll for notifications when the app is not active (just like GMail stock app). So I start remote service in another process in the main activities onStop function like that:

@Override
public void onStop() {
    super.onStop();
    if(prefs.getBoolean(OPTIONS_KEY_SERVICE, false)) {
        startServiceIntent = new Intent(CloudAlarmsService.MY_SERVICE);
        Bundle b = new Bundle();
        b.putStringArray("duidCodes", duidCodes);
        startServiceIntent.putExtras(b);
        Log.d("SSE_SERVICE", "Starting Service");
        startService(startServiceIntent);
    }
}

It works fine, i get notifications after the activity was closed. Now i would like to stop remote service on activity start (so i won't have activity and service polling server concurrently). I do it like this:

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    stopService(new Intent(CloudAlarmsService.MY_SERVICE));
    Log.d("SSE_SERVICE", "Stopping service");
}

CloudAlarmsService.MY_SERVICE is a string in my service class:

public class CloudAlarmsService extends Service {
    public static String MY_SERVICE = "cloudindustries.alarms.service.BACKGROUND_SERVICE";
...

and also it is declared in manifest xml like that:

<service android:process=":alarms_poller" android:name=".CloudAlarmsService">
     <intent-filter android:label="@string/serviceStopService">
           <action android:name="cloudindustries.alarms.service.BACKGROUND_SERVICE" />
     </intent-filter>
</service>

But service is not stopped and it keeps working. After i close the main activity another instance of service spawns and continues polling.

Is there something i am missing out? Or maybe this is a bad use for a remote service or even there is another type of service / manager which could be used for such purpose?

Thanks for any help!

Edit:

Question clarification: Is it possible to stop remote service from different activity (which did not start the service)?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5924

Answers (1)

ρяσѕρєя K
ρяσѕρєя K

Reputation: 132982

try to stop CloudAlarmsService service as:

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setClass(getApplicationContext(), CloudAlarmsService.class); 
getApplicationContext().stopService(intent);

Upvotes: 0

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