How to determine if an Android Service is running in the foreground?

Question

I have a service which I believe to have running in the foreground, How do I check if my implementation is working?

Answer 1

This worked for me in the Coinverse app for crypto news.

It's is the most concise Kotlin solution. Thanks to Abbas Naqdi in this GitHub issue.

@Suppress("DEPRECATION") // Deprecated for third party Services.
fun  Context.isServiceRunning(service: Class) =
        (getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE) as ActivityManager)
            .getRunningServices(Integer.MAX_VALUE)
            .any { it.service.className == service.name }