Android service not restarting in lollipop

Question

In my application, I use location based service in background. So I need to restart my service when it gets destroyed.

But I got this message in logcat

Spurious death for ProcessRecord{320afaf6 20614:com.odoo.crm:my_odoo_gps_service/u0a391}, curProc for 20614: null

My service onTaskRemoved

@Override
public void onTaskRemoved(Intent rootIntent) {
    System.out.println("onTaskRemoved called");
    Intent restartServiceIntent = new Intent(App.getAppContext(), this.getClass());
    restartServiceIntent.setPackage(getPackageName());

    PendingIntent restartServicePendingIntent = 
       PendingIntent.getService(App.getAppContext(), 1, restartServiceIntent, 
       PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);

    AlarmManager alarmService = 
        (AlarmManager) App.getAppContext().getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
    alarmService.set(
            AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME,
            SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() + 1000,
            restartServicePendingIntent);
 }

My service onDestroy

@Override
public void onDestroy() {
    System.out.println("destroy service");
    super.onDestroy();
    wakeLock.release();
}

My service onStartCommand

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

I don`t know what is the error. I searched both in google & stackoverflow. All of them refer Service.START_STICKY. but I already used it.

Same service restart works in KitKat, but with some delay(~5 mins).

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You can restart it by using a BroadcasteReceiver which handles the broadcast sent from onDestroy() of your service.

How to do this:

StickyService.java

public class StickyService extends Service
{

    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) {
        return null;
    }

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


    @Override
    public void onTaskRemoved(Intent rootIntent) {
         super.onTaskRemoved(rootIntent);
         sendBroadcast(new Intent("IWillStartAuto"));
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
        sendBroadcast(new Intent("IWillStartAuto"));
    }

}

RestartServiceReceiver.java

public class RestartServiceReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver
{

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    context.startService(new Intent(context.getApplicationContext(), StickyService.class));

    }

}

Declare the components in manifest file:

    <service android:name=".StickyService" >
    </service>

    <receiver android:name=".RestartServiceReceiver" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="IWillStartAuto" >
            </action>
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>

Hope this will help you.