How do I check if a background service (on Android) is running? I want an android activity that toggles the state of the service -- lets me turn it on if it is off and off if it is on.
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how to check that the service with some name is running once? also if i go out from my activity then my service is running & when i come to my activity the onCreate method is called so my service is created again in this case or running service will be attached again?
public class ServiceExampleActivity extends Activity { Intent intent; Button start,stop; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); intent = new Intent(this, ServiceExample.class); // service example is service class Log.i("-----service------", "Service Created"); }
Sorry for the newbie question, but does anyone know how I can check whether an IntentService is already running? I'm starting an IntentService from onCreate within a normal Activity, and that means that if the user minimises and maximises the application, it gets called twice. I'm wondering if I need to use something like the solution here http://bit.ly/du3VW5 or whether there's a simpler way.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a service that is running within the context of my application. It gets invoked at the start of the activity and then gets update when new data is inserted or deleted from the database. The problem is that everytime I start the activity , it restarts the service. As you may have guessed - not a very intuitive design. Therefore I was wondering if there is a way to determine if the service is already running before starting it. I know I can bind to the service but I do not want that since the main activity needs to exits after the database operation is completed. I know for system services, you can get the service details from the application context. How do you do it for user defined service?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am an Android developer and I want to write an if statement in my application. In this statement I want to check if the default browser(browser in Android OS) is running. How can I do this pro grammatically?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am using this method to identify if a thread is running at any point of time, irrespective of whether the enclosing activity is running or not. Is this the right way?
View 3 Replies View RelatedOn Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Sanjay Dandekar <sanjay.dande...@gmail.com > wrote: > Is there a definitive way of knowing (something that no one can temper / > simulate) if our application is running on a commercial handset or test > handset / simulator?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have boot loader listener. But After user install the application my listener does not start until first boot-up. is there any way to check whether my listener running or not?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to show a progress dialog on the screen if the activity is showing. But when the activity window is not showing, it will not do anything. Please suggest, how do i check whether my activity is showing or not?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a situation where i want to show a dialog. However, the code that calls the method to show the dialog can be running either in the ui thread or not. How can i find if the current thread is running in the ui thread or not?
View 12 Replies View RelatedI am newbie to android. I have client server based application. Server keeps on sending the update notifications to client after every single minute and at client side my app receive those updates and display it using Toast. But now my problem is whenever my client app goes into the background server keeps on sending the update notifications and my client display it as if the application is in foreground. I am not getting how to check that application is running in background.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi want to check current running applications in android programmatically same like it shows 6 applications if we press and hold HOME button. actually i want to check application names.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow to check from the framework that ,the application is downloaded from Market or not?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an app that starts a service, then starts another activity previously selected by the user. Everything works on my app except I'm trying to get the service to kill itself, after it leaves the other activity without it having to come back to my activity. I've looked everywhere to see if anyone knows how to peek() search() the Activity Stack from a Service. Another way of wording is to check the foreground process from a service.
View 2 Replies View RelatedAnyone know how my service can check if the phone is currently in standby mode? And if I can trigger an event within my service when the phone comes out of standby mode...
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow do I check whether the local service inside my application is running?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to create an Android service, which notifies the main activity whenever disconnects and when internet reconnects again. I have following function for checking internet connectivity:.
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But I want to know, how to use it in a service.
Iam connection to services trougth my app, I woul like to check if the connections gets broken, alert a message than.
Or is this taken carre of in android? If not, How should I take care of it? is there a timer?
Does anyone know how to, or if it's even possible to check the (foreground process/top of the activity stack) from a service?
View 20 Replies View RelatedI would like to check the memory consumption of each running processes individually, cat /proc//statmis ok, but opening a shell for each check is time consuming, and maybe not the best way. any advices how to do it with the SDK?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs their some way to check which programs that are running? which apps etc? On my windows mobile phone I had a shortcut for this but on my hero I don't see it anywhere?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHere's some "snap me" screenshots.Are these all normal applications to be running? p.s. I realize that shoot me was running, kinda obvious
View 1 Replies View RelatedSometimes (it's not usual, but sometimes it happens) my phone (Nexus one, CM7) runs quite slowly, and not fluent at all, just because of an app that is eating all the memory / processor. If I kill that app, problem solved.
When this happened the first time, I went to the running services section in settings, and I checked that the services listed are not ALL the running processes, so even if I kill all the services there, there are still running apps. Then, I tried to install several app killers, just to check if they kill all the running apps, but not only they don't list all the running apps, but also when killing all, there are still apps that keep running (like some games), and the only way I found to find them is checking one by one in the apps list, if they are running or not.
Is there any app to check at once ALL the running apps? I have looked for it, but all I have found are apps to do exercise ("running apps", D'oh!), and stuff like that?
I am trying to set up a script with Script Manager which will check if com.facebook.katana is running and disable it, but if it isn't running then it will enable it.
The enable and disable part is easy using pm enable/disable but how do I check what is running?
I searched and couldn't find this. How do I check my time without service (tws) on my EVO?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI wanna background service which is looking every minute for the location.
So I created a service and created a broadcast receiver connected to the alarm service.
That works generally fine.
Now I wanna check the Location in that Service, I have a Service which is looking first for "gps" and if not available then for "network" location. That works fine!
Now my confusing case: If I am at home and connected to the WLAN the Location is found every minute and give me an notification in android bar all is fine!
But if I am on street and go around it doesnt work. The Service is just running when I touch the screen and make it active, then the service starts and gives me the location.
Why the service just works at street when I have the screen active? And at home in my WLAN it works always even the screen is not active.
According to my "What's using the Battery" function, my radio has been on for 4 days, but if I select the Radio App itself, it is switched off on the screen. I've tried the "Force Off" function under Apps Settings, but still the Battery-use screen shows the radio as running. Is there a way to quickly check what apps are running in the background, and - preferably - easily switch them off?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've looked through the other SMTP threads on here also, but didn't see anything that seemed to fit. I have a Desire and I use it over a WiFi link in my home, fine for surfing and reading mail, but when I try to set up an outgoing mail account on my 'usual' mail account I run into a problem. Because I travel a lot I use a service called authsmtp to provide me with an smtp address wherever I am, works fine, annual fee is low (not a recommendation, works for me).
However, in order to work it needs an SMTP address of the form mail.authsmtp.com and a password. I can enter the mail.authsmtp.com ok but it always says it cannot check the account. Is this 'cos it cannot check the smtp or is it something else? All the other data seems to be ok.
How do some android app make their service restart even if killed from task manager? A good example is Lookout security app. What I guess is that it has registered for all common events that are announced like app installed unistalled, interenet available ,etc.Is this a way to keep your service running ?Another solution I found was to make 2 services monitoring each other, so if one gets killed restart another.Which one would be a proper approach? Is there any way in android to start booting automatically(if device is switched off) once connected to power source? I have never heard this on mobile platform.This is possible for PC through bios feature. Can it be done on android?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have just started using services in Android and I have a made a simple service that is polling a server every 20 seconds. Now how can I get this data from my main activity (when it is active)? Alternatively the service could send it back do my main activity (but only if its active). I don't want to wake up my activity. I have read SDK examples of "Binding" but I can't find an example how to actually get something from the service. Just how to start and stop the Binding. From the example. If I have the "mBoundService" object in my activity how do I get my data from the service method called eg. "polling Data()"?
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