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Axay_Dev
Axay_Dev

Reputation: 41

Foreground service getting killed by the OS

I'm creating an app that captures location every 30 seconds. To do so, I've a foreground service and a handler in it that gets the latest location every 30 seconds. The app is working just fine for many devices with stock OS. But, on some devices like OnePlus, Panasonic, Vivo etc. the foreground service gets killed by the OS(sometimes the app too) even after changing the battery optimization status and the doze mode. I know that it is not possible to create a service in Android that does not die. Is there any way I can achieve what I'm trying to? Please let me know. Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 736

Answers (1)

Mohammad Elsayed
Mohammad Elsayed

Reputation: 2066

First of all, yes you are right the operating system will stop services when resources are limited, so to get around this you state the type of the services while creating them as the following: START_STICKY, START_NOT_STICKY, START_REDELIVER_INTENT...

read the last part of this article it talks about when to use which of them

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2010/02/service-api-changes-starting-with.html

Service.onStartCommand() callback that allows the service to better control how the system should manage it. The key part here is a new result code returned by the function, telling the system what it should do with the service if its process is killed while it is running.

Upvotes: 2

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