These exceptions do indeed get thrown and you should write appropriate try/catch logic to handle the situation where a remote method you invoked on a service did not complete. As far as your investigation, you were on the right track looking through the native sources. What you may have overlooked is that android.os.RemoteException is a … Read more
UPDATE based on latest documentation: Android has included in its documentation on when you should use Service vs Thread. Here is what it says: If you need to perform work outside your main thread, but only while the user is interacting with your application, then you should probably instead create a new thread and not … Read more
As it turns out, my steps were not correct. It took me weeks to figure this out and it doesn’t seem to be documented anywhere else. You’re welcome: Create a Web Application account in the Google APIs Console. Put any website as a “redirect URI”; it doesn’t matter since you will not really be using … Read more
public static boolean isServiceRunningInForeground(Context context, Class<?> serviceClass) { ActivityManager manager = (ActivityManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE); for (ActivityManager.RunningServiceInfo service : manager.getRunningServices(Integer.MAX_VALUE)) { if (serviceClass.getName().equals(service.service.getClassName())) { if (service.foreground) { return true; } } } return false; }
You might want to have a look at flutter_background_service package. It helps executing Dart code in the background.
It depends on the value returned in onStartCommand. You must return START_NOT_STICKY According to the documentation: For started services, there are two additional major modes of operation they can decide to run in, depending on the value they return from onStartCommand(): START_STICKY is used for services that are explicitly started and stopped as needed, while … Read more
On some devices (some LG, Huawei, Xiaomi, and others) your app needs to be manually added to a list of “protected apps” or “apps that are allowed to run in the background” in order for Android to restart STICKY services. If your app has not been manually added to this list, Android just kills your … Read more
It is a good idea to have those two layers when your business logic is more complex than your data logic. The service layer implements the business logic. In most cases, this layer has to perform more operations than just calling a method from a DAO object. And if you’re thinking of making your application … Read more