Paho MQTT Android service wake up activity

Question

I am trying to use Paho Android MQTT library (downloaded from here). The sample service application works fine, the subscribe and the publish meth

Answer 1

You should implement a background service see: http://developer.android.com/training/run-background-service/index.html

Or depending on the use case you can implement push notifications in the server side and receive them once the client is not subscribed to the MQTT broker.