Stop or kill a service

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I am developing a task manager application..

In that app, I display to the user a list of running apps and kill button beside each app. When user presses kill button the corresponding activity will be killed and i used

      activitymanager.killbackgroundprocesses(packageName)

I created another application called service notification where user can start and stop a service by clicking on button "start service" and button "stop service" respectively.. Then before running my task manager app, i started the service from service notification app. So this activity was displayed in my task manager app.

But when i kill that activity, it disappears from the list and then appears again because the service is restarting..How do I kill the sevice then?

I used startService and onCreate for starting service and showing some notification and stopService and onDestroy for stopping service...

~"before running my task manager app, i started the service from service notification app". So what you're saying is that you start all services regardless of whether the user chose to start them or not? — IgorGanapolsky, Jan 01 '14 at 21:45

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '12 at 05:52

I finally found an answer to my question...

After using

activitymanager.killbackgroundprocesses(packageName) ,

we have to check if there are any services running under that package name or process name.

Then we have to use

stopService(new Intent().setComponent(serviceInfos.get(i).service))

But it would return an error because android does not allow us to stop another service

So I used these two lines in the manifest and then ran my app in the build machine

coreApp="true" 
android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system"

These two lines are there in the android settings manifest file, which allows settings to stop service if the user wants.

So the activity got killed along with the service... :)

And remember this worked only on the build machine....

what is build machine，you mean it is the mobile you doing it? — pengwang, Apr 07 '12 at 05:59
coreApp="true" means that it is a system app that gets distributed by an OEM or Google itself? — IgorGanapolsky, Jan 01 '14 at 21:49

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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Try To Use this permission in your android Manifest File.

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES" />

and Look at this link it may be helpfull... http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#startService%28android.content.Intent%29

and this: Start a service on onClick

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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ya I have used that permission and I am able to kill other activities too..except the activity with this service – DSP Feb 22 '12 at 05:23

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