Question

My android app used to got killed in background even with foreground service.
Here is the manifest entry for the service :

 <service
            android:name=".MyService"
            android:icon="@drawable/icon"
            android:label="TritonHK"
            android:process=":my_process" >
        </service>

and here is the code for service

 MLog.w(getClass().getName(), "TritonHK started");

         Notification note=new Notification(R.drawable.icon,
                                             "TritonHK is running",
                                             System.currentTimeMillis());
         Intent i=new Intent(this, BGMessages.class);

         i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP|
                    Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);

         PendingIntent pi=PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0,
                                                     i, 0);

         note.setLatestEventInfo(this, "TritonHK",
                                 "TritonHK",
                                 pi);
         note.flags|=Notification.FLAG_NO_CLEAR;

         startForeground(1337, note);

and here is how I am starting my service:

Intent i=new Intent(this, MyService.class);

        startService(i);

I am starting the service in onCreate of my first activity.

I have over come this bug by removing android:process=":my_process" from my service in manifest, now it looks like this:

 <service
                android:name=".MyService"
                android:icon="@drawable/icon"
                android:label="TritonHK"
                 >
            </service>

But now I am facing an interesting problem.

When I install the app on my device and after installation successful I click on done and launch my app from the icon, It runs fine.

But after installation successful If I launch the app by clicking open button It got killed in background for very first time. Then If I force close the app and launch it from icon again then it runs fine.

I am puzzled what is going wrong. Please help me

Answer 1

I have resolved the problem with the following code and posting the same so that others can also use this.

I have added below code to the on create of my launcher activity.

if (!isTaskRoot()) {
            final Intent intent = getIntent();
            final String intentAction = intent.getAction();
            if (intent.hasCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER) &&
                    intentAction != null && intentAction.equals(Intent.ACTION_MAIN)) {
                finish();
            }
        }