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Android: how to intercept when a Service runs for the first time

Hi and thanks for your help.

I have the following situation.

I have an AlarmManager that fires off a Service every 1 minute.

I have to execute a specific method in that Service only when the Service is started for the first time. not when it starts the subsequent times.

I do not think shared preferences is a solutions, because they are persisted if the phone is switched off.

Please how do I solve this ??

Thank you for any suggestion!!!

Solution

  • Try inheriting form the App and store in it..

    public class YourApp extends Application {

private static boolean mFirstRun = false;

public static boolean getFirstRun() { return mFirstRun; }
public static void clearFirstRun() { mFirstRun = false; }

    from your service:

    if (YourApp.getFirstRun()) 
{
   clearFirstRun();
   // run first time code
}