How to restart service in android to call service oncreate again

Question

I have a service in my Android Application which runs always.Now i have a settings from my server through GCM and update these settings to my service. I put my settings in o

Answer 1

or you can use a delayed handler to start the service. The handler will need to be declared static in a singleton, so its reference is not killed while restarting:

serviceRestartHandler = new Handler ();
serviceRestartHandler.postDelayed (new Runnable () {
            @Override
            public void run() {

                startService (new Intent (mContext, YourWonderfulService.class)
                        .putExtra (flagName, true));
                serviceRestartHandler.removeCallbacksAndMessages (null);
            }
        }, 1000);
        stopSelf ();