How to restart service in android to call service oncreate again

Question

I have a service in my Android Application which runs always.Now i have a settings from my server through GCM and update these settings to my service. I put my settings in o

Answer 1

The best solution is to use onDestroy().

When need to restart the service just call

RESTARTSERVICE = true;
stopService(new Intent(this, CLASS_OF_SERVICE.class));

and

public void onDestroy()
{
   if (RESTARTSERVICE)
    {
       startService(new Intent(this, CLASS_OF_SERVICE.class));
    }
}