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Fakhriddin Abdullaev
Fakhriddin Abdullaev

Reputation: 4940

Android: how do check if service is running?

Is there any simple way of determining whether or not a certain service is active? I do this

    boolean serviceWorking = false;

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
       serviceWorking = true;
    }
    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
       serviceWorking = false;
       stopSelf(startId);
}

but it is not working.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 12191

Answers (2)

Avinash Roy
Avinash Roy

Reputation: 973

Information about running services is provided by the Android operating system through ActivityManager#getRunningServices. All the approaches using onDestroy or onSometing events or Binders or static variables will not work reliably because as a developer you never know, when Android decides to kill your process or which of the mentioned callbacks are called or not.

U can write a method like this in activity

private boolean isMyServiceRunning(Class<?> serviceClass) {
    ActivityManager manager = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
    for (RunningServiceInfo service : manager.getRunningServices(Integer.MAX_VALUE)) {
        if (serviceClass.getName().equals(service.service.getClassName())) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

call it using:

isMyServiceRunning(MyService.class)

Upvotes: 7

Ben Brookes
Ben Brookes

Reputation: 439

I refer to the following: Check if service is running on Android?

public class MyService extends Service
{
    private boolean mRunning;

    @Override
    public void onCreate()
    {
        super.onCreate();
        mRunning = false;
    }

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId)
    {
        if (!mRunning) {
            mRunning = true;
            // do something
    }
        return super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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