Android: Activity.onDestroy() restarts service

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14788575

Question

I've got an app that runs in the background, using a service. But when onDestroy is called in the main activity, the service gets reseted, calls onCreate and onStart over again. How can i prevent this?

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Solution

you have to look at the value the service returns from its onStartCommand method. The default value is START_STICKY which will restart the service after it is destroyed. Take a look at the onStartCommand documentation for more details:

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