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
It depends on the value returned in onStartCommand. You must return START_NOT_STICKY According to the documentation: For started services, there are two additional major modes of operation they can decide to run in, depending on the value they return from onStartCommand(): START_STICKY is used for services that are explicitly started and stopped as needed, while … Read more
Basically, there is no such thing as a service type app or functionality in iOS. Even the “background” apps (UIBackgroundMode) cannot run entirely free and without restrictions like a service or daemon etc. on other OSs can. Here’s the situation regarding background execution and notifications and timers etc. 1) An app cannot execute in the … Read more
For now it’s not possible. As it’s completely depend on their operating system API’s and customisation. Even developers have requested for this on XIOMI’s official forums but there is no response from there side. Till now even i am finding an answer to this question but nothing helped me. For the time being it will … Read more
After some tinkering for a while with different solutions i found out that one must create a notification channel in Android 8.1 and above. private fun startForeground() { val channelId = if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) { createNotificationChannel(“my_service”, “My Background Service”) } else { // If earlier version channel ID is not used // https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/app/NotificationCompat.Builder.html#NotificationCompat.Builder(android.content.Context) “” … Read more
Your receiver: public class MyReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver { @Override public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) { Intent myIntent = new Intent(context, YourService.class); context.startService(myIntent); } } Your AndroidManifest.xml: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <manifest xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” package=”com.broadcast.receiver.example” android:versionCode=”1″ android:versionName=”1.0″> <application android:icon=”@drawable/icon” android:label=”@string/app_name” android:debuggable=”true”> <activity android:name=”.BR_Example” android:label=”@string/app_name”> <intent-filter> <action android:name=”android.intent.action.MAIN” /> <category android:name=”android.intent.category.LAUNCHER” /> </intent-filter> </activity> <!– Declaring broadcast receiver … Read more