Based on my understanding, an IntentService will get stopped when its current request is done.
Consider the below scenario, i will be triggering a request to the IntentSerivce for every 100ms and the processing time will be 90 ms for that request.
So for every my request - startSerivce call, service will get invoked and after 90ms (once the processing is done), onDestroy of the IntentServicee will get invoked.
I would like to have this IntentServicee running till i say stop. Is that possible?
assume that i am going to do the below in my service
Steps 1 is common for all my requests, so i thought i can do them when service is started initially once and then do 3-6 in HandleIntent based on the requests.
The IntentService
is actually a pretty small class which wraps a Handler, the problem being that after an Intent has been handled it calls stopSelf()
.
Removing that single line gives you an IntentService which needs to be explicitly stopped:
public abstract class NonStopIntentService extends Service {
private String mName;
private volatile Looper mServiceLooper;
private volatile ServiceHandler mServiceHandler;
public NonStopIntentService(String name) {
super();
mName = name;
}
private final class ServiceHandler extends Handler {
public ServiceHandler(Looper looper) {
super(looper);
}
@Override
public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
onHandleIntent((Intent)msg.obj);
// stopSelf(msg.arg1); <-- Removed
}
}
@Override
public void onCreate() {
super.onCreate();
HandlerThread thread = new HandlerThread("IntentService[" + mName + "]");
thread.start();
mServiceLooper = thread.getLooper();
mServiceHandler = new ServiceHandler(mServiceLooper);
}
@Override
public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) {
Message msg = mServiceHandler.obtainMessage();
msg.arg1 = startId;
msg.obj = intent;
mServiceHandler.sendMessage(msg);
}
@Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
onStart(intent, startId);
return START_STICKY;
}
@Override
public void onDestroy() {
mServiceLooper.quit();
}
@Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return null;
}
/**
* This method is invoked on the worker thread with a request to process.
* Only one Intent is processed at a time, but the processing happens on a
* worker thread that runs independently from other application logic.
* So, if this code takes a long time, it will hold up other requests to
* the same IntentService, but it will not hold up anything else.
*
* @param intent The value passed to {@link
* android.content.Context#startService(Intent)}.
*/
protected abstract void onHandleIntent(Intent intent);
}