Trying to start a service on boot on Android

Question

I\'ve been trying to start a service when a device boots up on android, but I cannot get it to work. I\'ve looked at a number of links online but none of the code works. Am

Answer 1

In fact,I get into this trouble not long ago,and it's really really easy to fix,you actually do nothing wrong if you setup the "android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" permission and intent-filter.

Be attention that if you On Android 4.X,you have to run the broadcast listener before you start service on boot,that means,you have to add an activity first,once your broadcast receiver running,your app should function as you expected,however,on Android 4.X,I haven't found a way to start the service on boot without any activity,I think google did that for security reasons.