Android: how do check if service is running?

Question

Is there any simple way of determining whether or not a certain service is active? I do this

    boolean serviceWorking = false;

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
       serviceWorking = true;
    }
    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
       serviceWorking = false;
       stopSelf(startId);
}

but it is not working.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7399029/ and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/600207/ and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17588910/ — Yousha Aleayoub, Jun 13 '17 at 09:52

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 13 '17 at 09:55

Information about running services is provided by the Android operating system through ActivityManager#getRunningServices. All the approaches using onDestroy or onSometing events or Binders or static variables will not work reliably because as a developer you never know, when Android decides to kill your process or which of the mentioned callbacks are called or not.

U can write a method like this in activity

private boolean isMyServiceRunning(Class<?> serviceClass) {
    ActivityManager manager = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
    for (RunningServiceInfo service : manager.getRunningServices(Integer.MAX_VALUE)) {
        if (serviceClass.getName().equals(service.service.getClassName())) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

call it using:

isMyServiceRunning(MyService.class)

This solution does not work anymore in Android O since getRunningServices has been deprecated. It will now return only the callers own service name. — Ungureanu Serban, Nov 20 '17 at 14:30
the `getRunningServices` is now deprecated and is not advisable to use it — davejoem, Jun 23 '20 at 23:22

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '17 at 09:52

I refer to the following: Check if service is running on Android?

public class MyService extends Service
{
    private boolean mRunning;

    @Override
    public void onCreate()
    {
        super.onCreate();
        mRunning = false;
    }

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId)
    {
        if (!mRunning) {
            mRunning = true;
            // do something
    }
        return super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);
    }
}

It will be better if you comment link instead of post – IntelliJ Amiya Jun 13 '17 at 10:00 — IntelliJ Amiya, Jun 13 '17 at 10:00

Android: how do check if service is running?

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