How to know whether service is running using adb shell in android

Question

I want to know whether media player service (registers with media.player when device boots up) is running or not using adb shell. Is it possible?

I tried running ps command but no success.

Answer 1

As mentioned already, adb shell service list will only list system services.

As explained in Android Emulator: How can I get a list of services that are running, you can look for services created by apps by using

// List all services adb shell dumpsys activity services  // List all services containing "myservice" in its name adb shell dumpsys activity services myservice 

If it returns something, it means the service is installed. To know if the service is currently started or stopped, look for app=ProcessRecord(...) or app=null respectively.

You can also do it Linux style with a simple

ps | grep myservice 

while inside of your shell.

Answer 2

Try the command line

adb shell service list

I get a list of service names and their package names as well.