Android Location foreground service calling-CodePudding

I am using android foreground service for continuous location updates that starts when user clicks a button. My question is what if the user presses the button twice? Will there be two foreground process running? If so, how to check whether foregroundservice running already or not.

So that I can apply a condition before calling the foreground service. Please let me know if there a way.

CodePudding user response：

Services are singletons- only one will exist at a time. However, it will call onStartCommand again with a new Intent if you call startService or startForegroundService again. So make sure that call won't cause you to rerequest location updates if you already have.

CodePudding user response：

You can check if your service is running or not by using this function:

private fun isMyServiceRunning(serviceClass: Class<*>): Boolean {
        val manager = getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE) as ActivityManager
        for (service in manager.getRunningServices(Int.MAX_VALUE)) {
            if (serviceClass.name == service.service.className) {
                return true
            }
        }
        return false
    }

If your service is not running start the service:

if (!isMyServiceRunning(MyService::class.java) {
    startService(...)
}