How to restart service in android to call service oncreate again

Question

I have a service in my Android Application which runs always.Now i have a settings from my server through GCM and update these settings to my service. I put my settings in oncreate of service. So i need to restart my service to fetch latest settings. How to restart my service?

Answer 1

Call this two methods right after each other, which will causes the Service to stop and start. Don't know any method that "restarts" it. This is how I have implemented it in my application.

stopService(new Intent(this, YourService.class)); startService(new Intent(this, YourService.class)); 

Answer 2

The best solution is to use onDestroy().

When need to restart the service just call

RESTARTSERVICE = true; stopService(new Intent(this, CLASS_OF_SERVICE.class)); 

and

public void onDestroy() {    if (RESTARTSERVICE)     {        startService(new Intent(this, CLASS_OF_SERVICE.class));     } }