Start android application without activity

Question

I\'ve an application which aims to run only as a service (no interface, just run in background). I have no activity mentioned in my AndroidManifest.xml but put a receiver to

Answer 1

Starting The service using Broadcast receiver through any Intent like

android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED

is not possible above Android 3.1 until the user uses your app, and thus to use your app there must be a single non UI activity (which can call finish in oncreate()).

See the proof here