Broadcast Receiver Not Working After Device Reboot in Android

Question

I have already checked all the related questions and have not found any solution for this problem. So this is an absolutely new problem for me.

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Answer 1

Hi I am late to the party but I was following this question from it's start. I know there that One-plus and some other OEMs maintain a list of apps which can receive BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast. If your app is not white listed then your app won't be started on boot. Now I've a solution which is very efficient in terms of memory and resources and guaranteed to start your task or service after reboot or hard boot also does not need AccessibilityService as proposed in this answer. Here it goes..

1. Add permission in your manifest file.

2.If you don't have a dependency on com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm, add the following to your build.gradle's dependencies section:

compile 'com.firebase:firebase-jobdispatcher:0.5.2'

Otherwise add the following:

compile 'com.firebase:firebase-jobdispatcher-with-gcm-dep:0.5.2'

This is a library from firebase team which depends on google-play-service library to schedule your jobs and from my point of view google-play-service has the permission to start at boot so instead of system google-play-service will run your job as soon as device rebooted.

3. Now this step is easy Just define a JobService class

   public class MyJobService extends JobService {
   
   @Override
   public boolean onStartJob(JobParameters job) {
       Log.v("Running", "====>>>>MyJobService");
   
       return false; // Answers the question: "Is there still work going on?"
   }
   
   @Override
   public boolean onStopJob(JobParameters job) {
       Log.v("Stopping", "====>>>>MyJobService");
       return true; // Answers the question: "Should this job be retried?"
   }
   

}

4. Add your Job Service in manifest file.

5. Schedule this job anywhere you want for e.g when your app start.

          FirebaseJobDispatcher dispatcher = new FirebaseJobDispatcher(new GooglePlayDriver(getApplicationContext()));
   
           Bundle myExtrasBundle = new Bundle();
   
           myExtrasBundle.putString("some_key", "some_value");
   
           Job myJob = dispatcher.newJobBuilder()
                   // the JobService that will be called
                   .setService(MyJobService.class)
                   // uniquely identifies the job
                   .setTag("my-unique-tag-test")
                   // repeat the job
                   .setRecurring(true)
                   // persist past a device reboot
                   .setLifetime(Lifetime.FOREVER)
                   // start between 0 and 60 seconds from now
                   .setTrigger(Trigger.executionWindow(0, 60))
                   // don't overwrite an existing job with the same tag
                   .setReplaceCurrent(false)
                   // retry with exponential backoff
                   .setRetryStrategy(RetryStrategy.DEFAULT_EXPONENTIAL)
                   // constraints that need to be satisfied for the job to run
                   .setExtras(myExtrasBundle)
   
                   .build();
   
           dispatcher.mustSchedule(myJob);
   

6.That's it!! Now you can execute your task or service on device boot no matter you are in white list or not.

There is one point to note that Google Play Service must be installed on device otherwise it won't work.