Android Service restarting on app exiting and no EXTRA_MESSAGE found anymore

Asked Jan 29 '15 at 10:46

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I'm sending a filename (with EXTRA_MESSAGE) to a class extending Android Service. I'm receiving in this way:

 public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) { // new start


        mNotificationHelper = new NotificationHelper(getBaseContext());

        if (intent != null)
            meta = intent.getStringArrayExtra(VideoCompress.EXTRA_MESSAGE);

        //extracting filename from the whole path
        fileNamePath= meta[0];

}

All works fine, except for the fact that when I exit the application (with finish), the Service seems to restart and a null pointer exception is called on:

fileNamePath= meta[0];

because the activities are destroyed, obviously.

Any ideas to solve this ?

asked Jan 29 '15 at 10:46

andreasperelli

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`Stop service` in Activity `onPause()` – M D Jan 29 '15 at 10:48
the Activity is not onPause... and I don't want to stop the service, it should continue to work – andreasperelli Jan 29 '15 at 10:50
But `start service` in `onResume()` – M D Jan 29 '15 at 10:51
I'm exiting from the Activity (with a Exit button). So the service stays in background but it is restarted (I don't know why) when I'm completely exiting from the app. – andreasperelli Jan 29 '15 at 10:53
read the docs when intent can be null in onStartCommand – pskink Jan 29 '15 at 11:04
the answer from @Autocrab seems to work, many thanks! – andreasperelli Jan 29 '15 at 11:07
spoken too soon... the background process seems to not continue when exiting from the app... – andreasperelli Jan 29 '15 at 11:48
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15473957/android-service-restarting-when-application-is-killed this should be the solution – andreasperelli Jan 29 '15 at 13:17
post more code. show us how you return from `onStartCommand()` and how you manage your background process. – David Wasser Jan 30 '15 at 18:11

Android Service restarting on app exiting and no EXTRA_MESSAGE found anymore

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