Android - implementing startForeground for a service?

Question

So I\'m not sure where/how to implement this method to make my service run in the foreground. Currently I start my service by the following in another activity:

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Answer 1

@mikebertiean solution almost did the trick, but I had this problem with additional twist -- I use Gingerbread system and I didn't want to add some extra package just to run notification. Finally I found: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/support.git+/f9fd97499795cd47473f0344e00db9c9837eea36/v4/gingerbread/android/support/v4/app/NotificationCompatGingerbread.java

then I hit additional problem -- notification simply kills my app when it runs (how to solve this problem: Android: How to avoid that clicking on a Notification calls onCreate()), so in total my code in service looks like this (C#/Xamarin):

Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(this, typeof(MainActivity));
// make the changes to manifest as well
notificationIntent.SetFlags(ActivityFlags.ClearTop | ActivityFlags.SingleTop);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.GetActivity(this, 0, notificationIntent, 0);
Notification notification = new Notification(Resource.Drawable.Icon, "Starting service");
notification.SetLatestEventInfo(this, "MyApp", "Monitoring...", pendingIntent);
StartForeground(1337, notification);