Android service not restarting in lollipop

Question

In my application, I use location based service in background. So I need to restart my service when it gets destroyed.

But I got this message in logcat

Answer 1

You can restart it by using a BroadcasteReceiver which handles the broadcast sent from onDestroy() of your service.

How to do this:

StickyService.java

public class StickyService extends Service
{

    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        return START_STICKY;
    }


    @Override
    public void onTaskRemoved(Intent rootIntent) {
         super.onTaskRemoved(rootIntent);
         sendBroadcast(new Intent("IWillStartAuto"));
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
        sendBroadcast(new Intent("IWillStartAuto"));
    }

}

RestartServiceReceiver.java

public class RestartServiceReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver
{

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    context.startService(new Intent(context.getApplicationContext(), StickyService.class));

    }

}

Declare the components in manifest file:

Hope this will help you.