Conceptually Foreground Services & Expedited Work are not the same thing.
Only a OneTimeWorkRequest can be run expedited as these are time sensitive. Any Worker can request to be run in the foreground. That might succeed depending on the app’s foreground state.
A Worker can try to run its work in the foreground using setForeground[Async]() like this from WorkManager 2.7 onwards:
class DownloadWorker(context: Context, parameters: WorkerParameters) :
CoroutineWorker(context, parameters) {
override suspend fun getForegroundInfo(): ForegroundInfo {
TODO()
}
override suspend fun doWork(): Result {
return try {
setForeground(getForegroundInfo())
Result.success()
} catch(e: ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException) {
// TODO handle according to your use case or fail.
Result.fail()
}
}
}
You can request a WorkRequest to be run ASAP by using setExpedited when building it.
val request = OneTimeWorkRequestBuilder<SendMessageWorker>()
.setExpedited(OutOfQuotaPolicy.RUN_AS_NON_EXPEDITED_WORK_REQUEST)
.build()
WorkManager.getInstance(context)
.enqueue(request)
On Android versions before 12 expedited jobs will be run as a foreground service, showing a notification. On Android 12+ the notification might not be shown.
