How To Stop Service When App Is Paused Or Destroyed But Not When It Switches To A New Activity?

Currently I have a Service which I am using to play a sound file in the background whilst the app is open: public class BackgroundSoundService extends Service { MediaPlayer pl

Solution 1:

You can try using onBackPressed in order to discover when your android app is going to be minimized.

You probably have an Activity Which is the main MainActivity that on back pressed will cause the App to minimize. Just stop the Service then.

Btw you should use a Singleton in order to keep a Reference for your backgroundSoundService

Make all your Activities that can minimize the app Extends this BaseActivity

publicabstractclassBaseActivityextendsActivity {

    @OverridepublicvoidonBackPressed() {
        //check if should be minimized...//if so stop the Service
    }

}

Need a solution for Home button

This is tricky because there is no Key event in order to distinguish `Home pressed.

What you can do is to use isFinishing method in onPause.

When activity will go to the Background it will NOT finish when pressing the Home Page key

So just have a boolean to check if you called (Using Intent) other Activity.

the update your onPause method to:

@Override
public void onPause() {
    if(!isFinishing()){
        if(!calledOtherActivity){
            stopService(serviceRef);
        }
    }
}