Android: Autorestart application when OS kills it

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friends.

I have to do next thing: We are writing special application for our customers. As we know, OS kills application sometimes (f.e low memory). So question is: Can i handle moment when OS killing it. I've read about onDestroy() event, but some people says, that event doesnt fired. Is it true?

Common question, can i handle OS killing application some way and restart it again.

I know, that is not good idea, but customers asks us about functionality like this.

Thank you for your help!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4685269/how-to-prevent-an-android-activity-to-get-killed — Sunny Kumar Aditya, Jul 24 '12 at 10:39
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3712245/android-broadcastreceiver-to-restart-killed-crashed-app — Sunny Kumar Aditya, Jul 24 '12 at 10:40

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 24 '12 at 10:51

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You can make it alarm driven using the AlarmManager class, check if your activity/app is up every few seconds (or minutes) and re-launch the activity if its been killed.

So the max time it can be down is the interval between two 'ticks' of the alarm

answered Jul 24 '12 at 10:51

Dheeraj Bhaskar

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I need two points of reputation for voting :) Thank you! Maybe you can give some example of AlarmManager and re-launch? – Pefeo Agenco Jul 24 '12 at 12:07

Android: Autorestart application when OS kills it

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