In android 4.4, swiping app out of recent tasks permanently kills application with its service . Any idea why?

Question

Unlike previous versions, in 4.4, swiping app out of recent tasks permanently kills app along with its service(like force-stop) even though it\'s running background services

Answer 1

From this issue Foreground service killed when receiving broadcast after acitivty swiped away in task list

Here is the solution

In the foreground service:

@Override
public void onTaskRemoved( Intent rootIntent ) {
   Intent intent = new Intent( this, DummyActivity.class );
   intent.addFlags( Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK );
   startActivity( intent );
}

In the manifest:

In DummyActivity.java:

public class DummyActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate( Bundle icicle ) {
        super.onCreate( icicle );
        finish();
    }
}