How to start a Service when .apk is Installed for the first time

by

Fortunately, Plan B does not work on Android 3.1+, as tested on a XOOM and a Galaxy Nexus.

What Plan B does is exploit a security hole that could be used by drive-by malware, which is specifically why Android prevents it from happening anymore.

UPDATE

To clarify: As inazaruk posted and I put into comments on other answers, all applications, upon installation, are placed in a “stopped” state. This is the same state that the application winds up in after the user force-stops the app from the Settings application. While in this “stopped” state, the application will not run for any reason, except by a manual launch of an activity. Notably, no BroadcastReceviers will be invoked, regardless of the event for which they have registered, until the user runs the app manually.

This block covers the Plan B scenario of remote-install-and-run, which they were taking advantage of previously. After all, with that, anyone with a hacked Google account would be at risk of having their device infected, hands-free as it were.

So, when the OP says:

I need to start a Service as soon as the Applicaton gets installed on the Device

the OP will be unsuccessful and will need to redesign the application to avoid this purported “need”.

More Related Contents:

  1. Changing position of the Dialog on screen android
  2. Add padding on view programmatically
  3. How to show one layout on top of the other programmatically in my case?
  4. How to access resource with dynamic name in my case?
  5. How to make bitmap invisible ontouch in android? [closed]
  6. What does android:layout_weight mean?
  7. Android How to adjust layout in Full Screen Mode when softkeyboard is visible
  8. Write a file in external storage in Android
  9. How to dismiss the dialog with click on outside of the dialog?
  10. Android Smudged layout
  11. UnsupportedOperationException: Can’t convert to dimension: type=0x1
  12. How did Google manage to do this? Slide ActionBar in Android application
  13. How to set android layout to support all screen sizes?
  14. Android Image View Pinch Zooming [duplicate]
  15. Heterogeneous GridLayout
  16. How to Automatically add thousand separators as number is input in EditText
  17. How to save the image to SD card on button Click android [closed]
  18. Dynamically creating Buttons and setting onClickListener
  19. Running google map application on Android Emulator
  20. Memory leaks with custom font for set custom font
  21. How to change default images of CheckBox
  22. Rotate View Hierarchy 90 degrees
  23. Custom format edit text input android to accept credit card number
  24. Setting Action Bar title and subtitle
  25. How to add views dynamically to a RelativeLayout already declared in the xml layout?
  26. Creating an android smart app banner
  27. Changing size of seekbar thumb
  28. Disable multi finger touch in my app [duplicate]
  29. Placing ViewPager as a row in ListView
  30. Android WebView Scrollable

Leave a Comment