How to run a background service in Oreo for longer period?

Question

Android Oreo has imposed many restrictions on running background service. Services now don\'t behave like normal in Oreo as they used to before.

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Answer 1

How do I prevent android system to not kill the service.

To summarize the comments: Use a foreground service, with a notification on a dedicated channel, with the channel set to IMPORTANCE_DEFAULT. Advise the user that they can mute that channel (e.g., long-press on the Notification in the notification shade). Using a dedicated channel means that you can still raise notifications on other channels. Your notification should also be useful:

• Have a "stop" action to stop your service, if the user wants to shut it down for a while

• Tapping on the notification itself would lead to your activity for configuring your app's behavior

I don't want to start a foreground service with a notification.

Then most likely you cannot write your app.

I cannot rule out the possibility of some bug in Android 8.x that could be exploited to have an indefinite-duration service. In fact, I'd consider it to be fairly likely that there's something floating around out there. However, this is clearly against Google intentions, meaning:

• Exploiting that technique, without what Google would consider to be valid justification, might get your app banned from the Play Store, if that was how you planned to distribute it

• The bug might be fixed in a future version of Android, and getting in an arms race with Google tends to be a losing proposition

There are enough "air gesture" apps floating about (i.e., do things based on a shake) that, ideally, Google would add some dedicated low-power API for it. For example, they could add functionality to JobScheduler to allow you to register for a shake event and have your JobService be invoked in that circumstance, just as they allow you to register for changes in a ContentProvider. I have no idea whether they will ever offer such an API, but you could file a feature request for it, if you wanted.