android-service

I have an app that has two services. One is for showing UI for floating (overlay) on other apps using WindowManager . The other is for Location Tracking using GooglePlayAPI . My app always runs these services. I want these services not to be killed by the OS. So I call Service.startForeground() . However there are two notifications in the notification drawer. Is there a way to use a single notification for both services? Yes, it is possible. If we take a look at Service.startForeground() signature, it accept both notification id & the notification itself ( see documentation ). Hence, if we

I'd like the following behavior: The user clicks a notification and Android stops my Service. The problem is that stopping a Service requires a call to stopService and I cannot easily create a PendingIntent that does that. So the only way I found to do this is to have my Service receive a special Intent extra that causes the Service to call stopSelf and stop. Is there a simpler way to directly cancel a Service from a notification click? You could create a simple BroadcastReceiver that does the stopService() call, and use a getBroadcast() PendingIntent to trigger it. That BroadcastReceiver

In my app, I place my Service in the foreground to prevent it from being killed by using: startForeground(NOTIFY_ID, notification); This also displays the notification to the user (which is great). The problem is that later I need to update the notification. So I use the code: notification.setLatestEventInfo(getApplicationContext(), someString, someOtherString, contentIntent); mNotificationManager.notify(NOTIFY_ID, notification); The question then is: will doing this knock the Service out of it's special foreground status? In this answer , CommonsWare indicates that this behavior is possible,

I wrote two apps (target Gingerbread). Let say app1 and app2. App1 has two services started with "BOOT_COMPLETED" and they are started with the return value START_STICKY. They run in separate threads. To make a long story short. One of the service is watching for incoming data on a serial port (a kind of proxy for app communicating with interfaces on the other end of the serial port). The other has a listener watching some system status and waiting for some "instructions" from other apps. I know they are running well because they are listed in the running services and I added some code that

I'm messing with Android services, and I have found that ServiceConnection.onServiceConnected() gets called fairly predictably when I bind to a service. However, my onServiceDisconnected() method seems to never be called, even after the VM dies. I have logged debug messages on the service and show that all threads have been shutdown, etc. I know services are implemented as processes; are there threads I don't know about that are preventing the process from exiting? reflog It happens upon remote service crash. So, if a service running in a different process than your client fails on some

I have a URL for a web page, and I want to take a 'screenshot' of this web page in the background, eg. in a Service, and without showing a UI to the user. I have tried to create a WebView in my Service, and then use the capturePicture() method to get the screenshot when the page has finished loading, but the created Picture (and the Bitmap I create from it ) is always empty. (This works perfectly in a normal Activity, but not in my background Service). Any way to get this to work, or an alternative way to get a 'screenshot' of a webpage without having a UI ? Note: This answer is old - the