Android Question StartServiceAt and how to kill previous services

[Daniel-White]

Hi folks.

One simple question. I have an APP which service is running each 2 minutes with
StartServiceAt("", DateTime.Now + 120 * 1000, False) and show a toastmessage("service running")

works great, each 2 minutes show "service running" in screen. ok

I put a button to stop the service with CancelScheduledService(Test) and stop the service and later , ExitApplication. ok
that is working. kill everything.

Why if I go to desktop and select the icon of my APP, and run it again, over and over, I have a lot of services running, and of course, I will see a lot of toast with " service running"

I put the CancelScheduledService(Test) in Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean) with the idea to kill previous services from old running APP in RAM.


I am looking to do this, perhaps the approach is not good, if the user call again from desktop, the APP , stop the previous service "Test" with the idea leave only one running.
Thanks you

 

[Erel]

Don't call ExitApplication. You should let the OS manage the process life cycle.

There could only be one service instance running. If you call StopService and CancelScheduledService then the service will stop and it will not start again.

 

[Daniel-White]

Erel, I did exactly what you told me.
I used StopService later CancelScheduleService, and in the end , Activity.finish instead ExitApplication. and now work fine
Thanks you Indeed.
Daniel White