Android Question StartServiceAt stops after Restart

But if I restart the phone it does not fire.

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If I add #StartAtBoot: True and restart then the service fires as soon as the phone as restarted and not in 5 mins time.

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udg said:

This should be expected since after the device restarts there's nothing that loads again that servrice.

With StartAtBoot you ask the OS to start the service after a device's boot, so it's up to you to discriminate between "first run" and subsequent ones. You may use a boolean var and set it after first run. So the service start, you set the var and do nothing. After 5 min the service starts again, you read the var, know that's time to do something and execute the code. This will happen again and again every 5 mins.
Is it that what you're planning?

Edit: if the service is not kept active (foreground) eventually it will be killed by the OS and if the user launces it manually it will skip the first run as for a restart.

udg

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