immortal android service?

[Omar Muhammed]

is it possible to make an independent service that keeps running even the app is forcibly killed by the user?

[Giovanni Montano]

Omar Muhammed wrote:is it possible to make an independent service that keeps running even the app is forcibly killed by the user?

you can use an intent filter if you need it for the same app, otherwise look at PendingIntent

[Omar Muhammed]

Would you give me an example please?

[Giovanni Montano]

Omar Muhammed wrote:Would you give me an example please?

you have to distinguish between the lifecycle of an Activity and the lifespan of a Service.
Do you know what is an Android Service?
Give me please an user case. Usually you do not kill the "app" but the activity.

[Omar Muhammed]

Let's say I have a simple service -launched by MainActivity- which is displaying a toast every x second. I know that my service will be killed if the user decided to kill MainActivity - which started it. What is to do if i want this service to keep running as long as the app is installed??!

[Giovanni Montano]

Omar Muhammed wrote:Let's say I have a simple service -launched by MainActivity- which is displaying a toast every x second. I know that my service will be killed if the user decided to kill MainActivity - which started it. What is to do if i want this service to keep running as long as the app is installed??!

well user want that if the app is killed so are the services! For security reasons. Would you imagine you close the app and a key logger is listening what you are writing?

the other way around is you have a mediaplayer and want to make the music playing if user switches to another application. in this case  you are not killing the app. And this is the user case I suggest you should adress

[Omar Muhammed]

No, when i say "app is killed" i mean specifically the force stop by the user.

[Simone Zeffiro]

If user forcibly stop an apps then it will not show again. But in some cases we found thats happening. So I think there is another backdoor.

[Omar Muhammed]

Simone Zeffiro wrote:If user forcibly stop an apps then it will not show again. But in some cases we found thats happening. So I think there is another backdoor.

Then, Do you have any idea about that?

[Giovanni Montano]

Omar Muhammed wrote:

Simone Zeffiro wrote:If user forcibly stop an apps then it will not show again. But in some cases we found thats happening. So I think there is another backdoor.

Then, Do you have any idea about that?

did you look pending Intent? the link I sent to you?