CODEWITHSUNDEEP
android
Music
Music

Reputation: 33

my app killed by android system when it running in background

I want to create application that can play a streaming music . When I press home my app can running in background but when I open another application that use more memory my app will stop and killed by android system . Anyone have another idea to run my music player app in background?

thank you

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6597

Answers (2)

devconsole
devconsole

Reputation: 7915

You have to implement a foreground service:

https://developer.android.com/guide/components/services.html#Foreground

A foreground service is a service that's considered to be something the user is actively aware of and thus not a candidate for the system to kill when low on memory. A foreground service must provide a notification for the status bar, which is placed under the "Ongoing" heading, which means that the notification cannot be dismissed unless the service is either stopped or removed from the foreground.

Example:

Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.icon, getText(R.string.ticker_text),
        System.currentTimeMillis());
Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(this, ExampleActivity.class);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, notificationIntent, 0);
notification.setLatestEventInfo(this, getText(R.string.notification_title),
        getText(R.string.notification_message), pendingIntent);
startForeground(ONGOING_NOTIFICATION_ID, notification);

Upvotes: 6

ykatchou
ykatchou

Reputation: 3727

Look the activity lifecycle :)

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/activities.html

I think you must do a service.

Upvotes: 3

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