Menu
It is very important that my service stay running until someone with a password stops the service from my UI screen. My app runs great but it is designed to be turned on/off by parents (with a password) on their kids phones. I have managed to make everything work but the problem I'm having is that if the kid uses a task manager to kill my service then my app is useless. I would be grateful to anyone who knows a way to either
1) monitor the service and start it back up automatically if its "killed" or 2) prevent someone from being able to kill it except from the activity (administration screen) that launched the service. Or both?
I'm sorry if I'm not very clear in describing the problem, I'm a beginner. I've made great progress so far but I am stuck at this last hurdle.
486
If your Service is started by your app then actually your service is running on main process. so when app is killed service will also be stopped. So what you can do is, send broadcast from onTaskRemoved method of your service as follows: Intent intent = new Intent("com.
If you really needed Android not to kill your service, your best bet would be to make it a System App, or make your service return START_STICKY in your onStartCommand() method. This way, if your service gets killed, then it will be queued to restart automatically.
The simplest way to keep background apps in check is using Android's Adaptive Battery feature. Turn it on by going to Settings > Battery > Adaptive preferences and toggle Adaptive Battery on. Update your device!
You can use API method: startForeground(). Here is the explanation of it:
A started service can use the startForeground(int, Notification) API to put the service in a foreground state, where the system considers it to be something the user is actively aware of and thus not a candidate for killing when low on memory. (It is still theoretically possible for the service to be killed under extreme memory pressure from the current foreground application, but in practice this should not be a concern.)
Here you can find an example how to use this.
As for the question, you cannot prevent a service from being killed. It can be killed by the system. Even system services can be killed. If this happens they are restarted. You may use the same approach.
195
You can write a helper app to receive android broadcast "android.intent.action.PACKAGE_RESTARTED",when your app got killed,your helper will receive that broadcast and you can restart your app or whatever.
That's how 'Smart App Protector Free' do.
The bad thing is users must install two apps instead of one.
40
If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
Donate Us With
