Question

I have an android service, I bound it to an activity, and unbound on destroy. The problem is, it starts out of nothing when the application is closed, sometimes when I turn on the device, sometimes ramdomly, I know it starts ’cause of a toast message. Lets get to the code…

Activity onCreate

Intent intent = new Intent(this, Sincronizacao.class);
this.bindService(intent, mConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);
this.startService(intent);

The code for mConnection

private ServiceConnection mConnection = new ServiceConnection() {
    public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName className, IBinder service) {
        serviceBound = true;
        localBinder = (LocalBinder<Sincronizacao>) service;
    }
    public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName className) {
        serviceBound = false;
        localBinder = null;
    }
};

And on destroy

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();
    if (serviceBound && mConnection != null) {
        unbindService(mConnection);
    }
    Intent intent = new Intent(this, Sincronizacao.class);
    stopService(intent);
    localBinder = null;
}

In my service, onStartCommand is implemented, in there I start out a thread wich query a web service and insert data into a database, the thread has a while(true), I simply interrupt it onDestroy method of the service…

Edit:

Here’s the manifest line

android:name="com.company.package.service.Sincronizacao" />

I’m struggling in this bug for some time already, hope you can help me.

Thanks,

Answer 1

I was able to solve the problem… Within the service, I moved the code from onStartCommand to onBind. I’ve had no problems since, I just use the service on a bidden state.

Also, previously I was stopping the Thread inside the service with thread.interrupt(), now I’m using a flag in the while, and setting it to false on onUnbind and onDestroy.