How to restart service after the app is killed from recent tasks
Override onTaskRemoved() in your service and use alarm manager to start the service again. Below is code from our app that does the same and works fine: @Override public void onTaskRemoved(Intent rootIntent) { super.onTaskRemoved(rootIntent); Log.d(TAG, “TASK REMOVED”); PendingIntent service = PendingIntent.getService( getApplicationContext(), 1001, new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MyService.class), PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT); AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE); alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME_WAKEUP, 1000, service); … Read more