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me.at.coding
me.at.coding

Reputation: 17654

Restarting my android service?

I want to restart my android service if some preferences have changed, but there's nothing like a restart method in the Service class? Is there any way to restart my service, except creating some kind of reset method that resets all class variables etc. ? Thanks for any hint!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 473

Answers (2)

Vishnuvathsan
Vishnuvathsan

Reputation: 635

You have to override the onStartCommand() in your service class as follows:

@Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
    super.onStartCommand(intent, START_STICKY, startId);
    return START_STICKY;
}

The constant variable START_STICKY indicates the system to restart the service if it get killed.

You should have/implement a listener to detect and inform when preference changes and you should register for that listener inside onStart() method and un-register that listener inside onDestroy().

Upvotes: 1

Saariko
Saariko

Reputation: 1703

I think that calling it again, will call onStartCommand() again. This might do the work for you.

*it will run onCreate() if it's not alive.

Call startService(intent) again, that will do the trick

Upvotes: 1

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