How to start and stop android service from a adb shell?

Question

I need to write a shell script to start and stop an android service .

Answer 1

For anyone still confused about how to define the service name parameter, the forward slash goes immediately after the application package name in the fully qualified class name.

So given an application package name of: app.package.name

And a full path to the service of: app.package.name.example.package.path.MyServiceClass

Then the command would look like this:

adb shell am startservice app.package.name/.example.package.path.MyServiceClass