How to detect app removed from the recent list?

Question

I'm working on a music app, and I want stop the service when user removes the application from the recent list and not when the first activity is destroyed(because when user clicks back back until app minimizes, in that case first activity is also getting destroyed). Please help.

Answer 1

I want stop the service when user removes the application from the recent list.

Yes, you can either do that using stopWithTask flag as true for Service in Manifest file.

Example:

<service     android:enabled="true"     android:name=".MyService"     android:exported="false"     android:stopWithTask="true" /> 

OR

If you need event of application being removed from recent list, and do something before stopping service, you can use this:

<service     android:enabled="true"     android:name=".MyService"     android:exported="false"     android:stopWithTask="false" /> 

So your service's method onTaskRemoved will be called. (Remember, it won't be called if you set stopWithTask to true).

public class MyService extends Service {      @Override     public void onStartService() {         //your code     }      @Override     public void onTaskRemoved(Intent rootIntent) {         System.out.println("onTaskRemoved called");         super.onTaskRemoved(rootIntent);         //do something you want         //stop service         this.stopSelf();     } } 

Hope this helps.