how to keep an Intent service running

Question

I have two examples of Intentservice. One is the Download example in the commonsware book. the other is at http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidServices/article.html#ser

Answer 1

To keep a service running, your service need to return START_STICKY in the service method onStartCommand().

With this, the service will be running even if you exit form your activity.

Note: The Android still kills services after some time (30 mintus to 1 hour) if they are not foreground services. Use startForeground(notification) to make it foreground.

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