I made a countdown in a service, it works when the app is sending to the background, but when the app to the state "dead" it to the count and restarts when I open again. I need it to continue working even in the dead state, as I need to send notifications when a certain time arrives for example. The code that I'm having this result: BroadcastService.java
package com.example.igord.myapplication2;
import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.CountDownTimer;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.util.Log;
/**
* Created by igord on 19/09/2017.
*/
public class BroadcastService extends Service {
private final static String TAG = "BroadcastService";
public static final String COUNTDOWN_BR = "com.example.igord.myapplication2";
Intent bi = new Intent(COUNTDOWN_BR);
CountDownTimer cdt = null;
@Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
Log.i(TAG, "Starting timer...");
cdt = new CountDownTimer(60000, 1000) {
@Override
public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
Log.i(TAG, "Countdown seconds remaining: " + millisUntilFinished / 1000);
bi.putExtra("countdown", millisUntilFinished);
sendBroadcast(bi);
}
@Override
public void onFinish() {
Log.i(TAG, "Timer finished");
}
};
cdt.start();
}
@Override
public void onDestroy() {
cdt.cancel();
Log.i(TAG, "Timer cancelled");
super.onDestroy();
}
@Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
return START_NOT_STICKY;
}
@Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) {
return null;
}
}
MainActivity
package com.example.igord.myapplication2;
import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.IntentFilter;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
private static final String TAG = "igr";
private TextView texttempo;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
startService(new Intent(this, BroadcastService.class));
Log.i(TAG, "Started service");
texttempo = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txt_tempo);
}
private BroadcastReceiver br = new BroadcastReceiver() {
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
updateGUI(intent); // or whatever method used to update your GUI fields
}
};
@Override
public void onResume() {
super.onResume();
registerReceiver(br, new IntentFilter(BroadcastService.COUNTDOWN_BR));
Log.i(TAG, "Registered broacast receiver");
}
@Override
public void onPause() {
super.onPause();
unregisterReceiver(br);
Log.i(TAG, "Unregistered broacast receiver");
}
@Override
public void onStop() {
try {
unregisterReceiver(br);
} catch (Exception e) {
// Receiver was probably already stopped in onPause()
}
super.onStop();
}
@Override
public void onDestroy() {
stopService(new Intent(this, BroadcastService.class));
Log.i(TAG, "Stopped service");
super.onDestroy();
}
private void updateGUI(Intent intent) {
if (intent.getExtras() != null) {
long millisUntilFinished = intent.getLongExtra("countdown", 0);
Log.i(TAG, "Countdown seconds remaining: " + millisUntilFinished / 1000);
texttempo.setText(String.valueOf(millisUntilFinished / 1000));
}
}
}