Restart the service even if app is force-stopped and Keep running service in background even after closing the app How?

Question

I am trying to run a service in the background. What my app does is when user checks checkbox then service starts and when it is unchecked service is stopped. Which is worki

Answer 1

I'm not entirely sure you can prevent your app from being closed by the TaskManager. If you think about it, it makes sense for it to be that way. Imagine that you have an app that fails to respond to user input and also fails to respond to being killed by the Task Manager. Not good. However I found this question which is in a similar vein to yours. Also you can have the system automatically re-start your Service as described here (scroll down on that page a little to just before 'starting a service'