How to detect app removed from the recent list?

Question

I\'m working on a music app, and I want stop the service when user removes the application from the recent list and not when the first activity is destroyed(because when use

Answer 1

I want stop the service when user removes the application from the recent list.

Yes, you can either do that using stopWithTask flag as true for Service in Manifest file.

Example:

OR

If you need event of application being removed from recent list, and do something before stopping service, you can use this:

So your service's method onTaskRemoved will be called. (Remember, it won't be called if you set stopWithTask to true).

public class MyService extends Service {

    @Override
    public void onStartService() {
        //your code
    }

    @Override
    public void onTaskRemoved(Intent rootIntent) {
        System.out.println("onTaskRemoved called");
        super.onTaskRemoved(rootIntent);
        //do something you want
        //stop service
        this.stopSelf();
    }
}

Hope this helps.