I'm currently creating a foreground service with a notification that appears in the notification bar when the service starts. If the service stops, the notification dismisses. My question is, is there a way to stop the service when "clear all notifications" or a dismiss of the notification (swipe) occurs?
Updated to include implementation of notification:
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId)
{
Log.d(CLASS, "onStartCommand service started.");
if (getString(R.string.service_start_action) == intent.getAction())
{
Intent intentForeground = new Intent(this, ServiceMain.class)
.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);
PendingIntent pendIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(getApplicationContext(), 0, intentForeground, 0);
Notification notification;
Notification.Builder builder = new Notification.Builder(getApplicationContext())
.setSmallIcon(android.R.drawable.btn_star)
.setTicker("Service started...")
.setContentIntent(pendIntent)
.setDefaults(Notification.DEFAULT_ALL)
.setOnlyAlertOnce(true)
.setOngoing(false);
notification = builder.build();
notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_FOREGROUND_SERVICE;
startForeground(SERV_NOTIFY, notification);
player.start();
}
else
{
Log.d(CLASS, "onStartCommand unable to identify acition.");
}
return START_STICKY;
}
The user is not allowed to swipe away a notification generated by an ongoing foreground service.
Hence, stopForeground(false)
first, which allows the notification to be swiped away by the user thereafter (at least on Lollipop+). For pre-Lollipop, you may have to stopForeground(true)
, which stops foreground and removes the notification, then re-issue the notification with notificationManager.notify(yourNotificationID, yourNotificationObject)
, so that your notification is visible but swipeable.
Crucially, set up the notification object with a delete intent that is triggered when the user swipes it away.
(new NotificationCompat.builder(this).setDeleteIntent(deletePendingIntent)).build()
where deletePendingIntent
is something like
Intent deleteIntent = new Intent(this, YourService.class);
deleteIntent.putExtra(someKey, someIntValue);
PendingIntent deletePendingIntent = PendingIntent.getService(this,
someIntValue,
deleteIntent,
PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);
When the user swipes it away, the intent with its extra is delivered to the service. Handle the delivered extra within onStartCommand
, i.e. check that intent != null
, intent.getExtras() != null
, then extract the value from the extras bundle given someKey
, and if it matches someIntValue
, then call stopSelf()
.