Prevent Activity From Restarting On Phone Boot?

If a user reboots their phone while my activity is in the foreground, after the phone reboots, the activity automatically pops up again. I don't want this to happen because none of

Solution 1:

The ACTION_SHUTDOWN broadcast is supposed to go out when the device is shutting down. I say "supposed to go out", because it assumes an orderly shutdown. If the user winds up holding the POWER button for ~10 seconds, or popping out the battery, I would assume that ACTION_SHUTDOWN is not broadcast.

To control whether a component (e.g., activity) is available, you can use PackageManager and setComponentEnabledSetting(). A disabled component cannot be run and is generally invisible (e.g., a disabled app widget's <receiver> will not show up in the app widget picker).

In theory, you can combine these two. However, even at the best of times, I would assume that ACTION_SHUTDOWN behaviors are rather time-limited (so be quick about it), and you will need to handle the "disorderly" shutdown scenarios.