Question

I am building an application where I need a service which will never stop like android system services. I can make my service restarted by system using start_not_sticky but there is no guarantee that my service will never stop. So my idea is if there is any way to broadcase receive when my service will be goes off I can restarted the service. Is there any way to receive that?

Answer 1

The documentation explains it best :

• Use the startForeground(int, Notification) API to put the service in a foreground state, where the system considers it to be something the user is actively aware of and thus not a candidate for killing when low on memory . (It is still theoretically possible for the service to be killed under extreme memory pressure from the current foreground application, but in practice this should not be a concern.)

• Note this means that most of the time your service is running, it may be killed by the system if it is under heavy memory pressure. If this happens, the system will later try to restart the service. An important consequence of this is that if you implement onStartCommand() to schedule work to be done asynchronously or in another thread, then you may want to use START_FLAG_REDELIVERY to have the system re-deliver an Intent for you so that it does not get lost if your service is killed while processing it