Thanks for all your help. I was afraid that the only way to accomplish this would be to track its status on disk, which is really kinda nasty. A feature like this would be really useful since I don't want to start/stop a service if I really don't have to. I'm sure there are some security implications though, and I guess the Android team will have to balance those. Ah well, c'est la vie. -Soonil N.
On Apr 12, 3:08 pm, "Dan U." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, it would be fairly easy to do this, but I don't think there > is an existing method for it. > > First, create some kind of flag in the Service to represent whether > it's running. Update this flag in onStart and onDestroy. Then provide > a public static method to access this flag. I would be tempted to use > a static boolean flag, but I'm under the impression that gets wiped > out if the system decides to stop your Service when trying to free > resources. Maybe someone will clarify that. If it doesn't get wiped, > I'd do that. If it does, you could probably save/load the status using > preferences or a file. > > On Apr 12, 2:27 am, "Harsh Jain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I remember hackbod saying sometime back that you cant do this. But please > > search the forums. > > > harsh > > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Soonil Nagarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As the subject states, I want to check if a Service is already > > > running. If it is not, I do not want to start it, and if it is I want > > > to stop and then start it again. How can I find this out? Thanks - > > > Soonil N. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
