Question

have a problem with a system. I have running service, which is constantly checking the position and counting the distance and time since user start it. But after 20-25 minutes and many interactions with other applications service is being killed.

How I can prevent it?

I’m thinking to add second service which will keep my alive.

Answer 1

1, minimize your service’s memory usage

2, make you service foreground, for example in the service’s onCreate method

@Override
public void onCreate()
{
     super.onCreate();
    
     Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.icon_app_small, getText(R.string.app_name),System.currentTimeMillis());
     Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(this, [yourService].class);
     PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, notificationIntent, 0);
     notification.setLatestEventInfo(this, [name string], [notification msg string], pendingIntent);
     startForeground(Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT, notification);
}