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androidservicebackground-servicetermination

how to keep my background service active when android system kills my app?

I have a background service which runs in background to track screen on and off events. its started as below :

Intent intentService = new Intent(context, UnlockdService.class);
context.startService(intentService);

And it is returning Service.START_REDELIVER_INTENT in the method onStartCommand. But still when android system kills app this thread dies as well.

How can I prevent it?

Solution

  • The solution was so simple: Returning START_STICKY from onStartCommand() did the job.