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

Why not move the setting stuff from onCreate to a separate method. You can then call this method from onCreate and also call it when you need to change the settings. Then there would be no need to actually restart the service.