Keeping a background service alive on Android

Question

In reference to Accelerometer seems to only work for a few seconds?

I\'m using the BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast event to call the following:

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Answer 1

You need to use a Partial Wakelock with the service. If your service is interactive with the user, you might consider making the service foreground.

This is a working example for a Partial Wakelock:

Use this when service is started:

    PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) context.getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);
    PowerManager.WakeLock cpuWakeLock = pm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK, TAG);
    cpuWakeLock.acquire();

When the service is stopped, do call cpuWakeLock.release();

imports android.support.v4.content.WakefulBroadcastReceiver which Android Studio is telling me doesn't exist.

You need to import the support library for that.