Android Question Service stops when phone sleeps

[jimseng]

Hello all.
I have an app that plays music from a server using mediaplayerstream.
I'm not sure why it stops when the phone locks. I am using B4A version 5.8 and I don't seem to be able to do service.startforeground, which I think is necessary. Although I can't be sure it isn't due to some power saving or perhaps the wifi connection sleeping. It used to work several android iterations ago. Does anybody have any ideas? (I have set wifi to stay on when the phone sleeps).

Many thanks

 

[Erel]

You should use a foreground service with a partial lock (PhoneWakeState).

I don't seem to be able to do service.startforeground,

Why? What happens?

 

[jimseng]

I slightly mis-understood the service.startforeground. Do I need to put that in service_create or service_start. Struggling to find an example.

 

[jimseng]

Actually I have it working now. Thanks

 

[conax]

yes my app service stops when phone sleeps
Is there any sample running in the background? for check in every 30 seconds

 

[DonManfred]

Is there any sample running in the background?

Background location tracking

Simple example of a foreground service that keeps the process running in the background. The current location is shown in the persistent notification. The app starts at boot and theoretically should run all the time. It also schedules itself to run with StartServiceAt. This can help in cases...

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for check in every 30 seconds

Android will prevent you from doing it in such short interval. At least on never Android Devices.