Android service crashes after app is swiped out of the recent apps list

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Swiping the app from the recent tasks list actually kills the operating system process that hosts the app. Since your service is running in the same process as your activities, this effectively kills the service. It does NOT call onDestroy() on the service. It just kills the process. Boom. Dead. Gone. Your service does not crash.

Since your service returned START_STICKY from the call to onStartCommand(), Android recognizes that your service should be restarted and schedules a restart of the killed service. However, when your service is restarted it will be in a newly created process (you can see onCreate() called in the service), so it will have to start the work all over again.

Rule #1: Don’t ever swipe apps from the recent tasks list 😉

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