Location listener works from a Service but not an IntentService

Question

I have an app where I am trying to periodically get user location and send to server. I have a service attached to an AlarmManager which executes every minute (for

Answer 1

As Pankaj Kumar notes, an IntentService is not an appropriate solution for cases where the work to be done is intrinsically asynchronous. Once onHandleIntent() returns, your service is destroyed.

Use a regular Service, register for locations in onStartCommand(), using a HandlerThread for processing the results (so you can pass its Looper into requestLocationUpdates()). Once your location is received, or a suitable timeout is reached, do your work and call stopSelf() on the service to shut it down.