Android Background Service is restarting when application is killed

Question

I am developing an application in which a background service is created to collect sensor data. I am starting the service from my activity:

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Answer 1

When the memory is low, a service running in background automatically gets killed. Instead of using startService() to start a service, try using StartForeground() instead. The service runs in the foreground and will never be killed even if memory is low.