How to kill a service proberly

[mrossen]

Hi.

I have an app with a service running.

Now I have made a Stop service button that runs a

Stopservice(bluetoothservice)

This looks to work fine because I got :

Sub Service_Destroy

   ToastMessageShow("Close Service", False)
   ExitApplication
   
End Sub

the message "Close service" and the apps exits.

But When I turn on my bluetooth device again the service pops up again?

I have the service running in foreground. Do I need to stop this or will it stops aut. when the service closes?

 Service.StartForeground(1, Notification1)

Or do I need to run this

Service.StopForeground("")

Mogens

 

[Erel]

You should not call ExitApplication. You should let Android kill the process for you. Otherwise the OS may decide to restart the service because it thinks that it crashed.

 

[mrossen]

Hi Erel,

Thanks for your reply,

I have tried to run without ExitApplication, but the result is the same.

How long time is the normal for the process to kill? I have waited more than 5 min.

Is there a way to see is the process still running?

Mogens

 

[Erel]

I'm not sure that I understand the problem.

Usually it doesn't matter whether the process is kept alive or not.

 

[mrossen]

The problem is:

When I kill the app with all the described code lines the app close as it has to.

But when the bluetooth in the phone come in range to something it knows, the app running again. I can simply not kill it.

Mogens

 

[Erel]

You should call Serial.StopListening.

 

[JohnK]

Is there a way to see is the process still running?

I use an app called "Elixir" which can show you the running apps, and how many Processes and Services are running within each.

 

[mrossen]

I am using serial1.StopListening.

Sub Service_Destroy

   Serial1.Disconnect
   Serial1.StopListening
   Service.StopForeground(1)
   ToastMessageShow("Close Service", False)
   'ExitApplication
   
End Sub

The only way I can prevent the app to popup when I turn on my bluetooth device, is to uninstall it.

It is my bluetooth device there are master and are look for known phones all the time. When it find a known phone it will try to connect.

Can this be the problem?

Mogens

 

[Erel]

Can this be the problem?

It might be. Did you add anything special in the manifest editor?

 

[mrossen]

This is the manifest edit from b4a

'This code will be applied to the manifest file during compilation.
'You do not need to modify it in most cases.
'See this link for for more information: http://www.b4x.com/forum/showthread.php?p=78136
AddManifestText(
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" />
<supports-screens android:largeScreens="true" 
    android:normalScreens="true" 
    android:smallScreens="true" 
    android:anyDensity="true"/>)
SetApplicationAttribute(android:icon, "@drawable/icon")
SetApplicationAttribute(android:label, "$LABEL$")
AddApplicationText(<activity android:name="anywheresoftware.b4a.objects.preferenceactivity"/>)
AddReceiverText(BluetoothService, <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_CONNECTED"/>
 </intent-filter>)
 AddReceiverText(BluetoothService, <intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_DISCONNECTED"/>
 </intent-filter>)
 AddPermission(android.permission.BLUETOOTH)
'End of default text.

 

[Erel]

The intent filters that you've added will make your service start each time that a bluetooth device is connected or disconnected.