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

To stop a service, you have to find service name using:

adb shell dumpsys activity services 

for example: adb shell dumpsys activity services com.xyz.something

This will list services running for your package.
Output should be similar to:

ServiceRecord{xxxxx u0 com.xyz.something.beta/xyz.something.abc.XYZService}

Now select your service and run:

adb shell am stopservice  

For example:

adb shell am stopservice com.xyz.something.beta/xyz.something.abc.XYZService

similarly, to start service:

adb shell am startservice 

To access service, your service(in AndroidManifest.xml) should set exported="true"