I’ve owned (and currently own) Samsung devices, so I know a little as to how it works from the user’s point of view. The technical specifications and how it works on the inside is an entirely separate issue, and one I can’t answer. The system can detect if you open an app. Samsung uses that … Read more
Sure! No reason you cannot have an application with only a service. …and no need to get into AIDL unless you want to. The problem is, how to make the application run. When you create an application with an Activity, you add an Intent filter, in the manifest, that makes the activity startable from the … Read more
I’m surprised there’s no discussion of the incoming flags. I’m going to monitor this in the logs with the following: if (null == intent || null == intent.getAction ()) { String source = null == intent ? “intent” : “action”; Log.e (TAG, source + ” was null, flags=” + flags + ” bits=” + Integer.toBinaryString … Read more
I am not sure which ‘Task Manager’ you are referring to as different ones would act differently, so I am basing my answer on the action when the user goes to Settings–>manage Applications and–> force stops the app the way android has given him. Assuming that your service is running as part of the process … Read more
The main problem is that we cannot say Services are not meant to be killed. They are meant to run in background as long as we want it to. Basically, that is not true. System still can terminate the service in low memory and possibly other situations. There are 2 ways to overcome this: If … Read more
Service is a base class of service implementation. Service runs on the application’s main thread which may reduce the application performance. Thus, IntentService, which is a direct subclass of Service is available to make things easier. The IntentService is used to perform a certain task in the background. Once done, the instance of IntentService terminates … Read more
If you go through THE LINK, you will find: Unfortunately, some devices implement killing the app from the recents menu as a force stop. Stock Android does not do this. When an app is force stopped, it cannot execute jobs, receive alarms or broadcasts, etc. So unfortunately, it’s infeasible for us to address it – … Read more
AudioManager mAudioManager = (AudioManager) getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE); if(mAudioManager.isMusicActive()) { Intent i = new Intent(SERVICECMD); i.putExtra(CMDNAME , CMDSTOP ); YourApplicationClass.this.sendBroadcast(i); } you can by getting the audiomanager then sending commands to it. these are the commands. public static final String CMDTOGGLEPAUSE = “togglepause”; public static final String CMDPAUSE = “pause”; public static final String CMDPREVIOUS = “previous”; public … Read more
Start the service explicitely intent = new Intent(context, Service.class); OR explicitly provide the package in an implicit intent intent = new Intent(“com.example.intent.ACTION”); intent.setPackage(“com.example”)
The Intent android.intent.action.SIM_STATE_CHANGED is broadcast when the SIM state changes. For example, on my HTC Desire with a T-Mobile SIM card, if I put the device into flight mode the following Intent is broadcast: Intent: android.intent.action.SIM_STATE_CHANGED with extras: ss = NOT_READY, reason = null If I then take it out of flight mode, the following … Read more