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

Your code in onTaskRemoved is preventing the system to run the killProcess commands. The delay on Kitkat is caused by using alarmService.set, which is inexact from API 19. Use setExact instead.

If you have a service that you want to keep alive, it is recommended that you attach a notification to it and make it foreground. That way the likeliness of it being killed would be lowered.