I would strongly recommend against that, it can be quite inefficient. This API is really intended for applications to display a list of running services.
If your service is running in the same process as the code wanting to check its state, you can just set a global variable while it is running. Why do you need to do this? On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:34 PM, yukinoba <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have already found out how to get this done. Please refer to the > following code: > > /** > * Indicates whether the specified service is already started. > This > * method queries the activity manager for launched services that > can > * respond to an binding with an specific service name. > * If no existed service is found, this method returns null. > * > * @param context The context of the activity > * @param className The service full name to check for > availability. > * > * @return ComponentName if the service is already existed, NULL > otherwise. > */ > public static ComponentName isServiceExisted(Context context, > String className) > { > ActivityManager activityManager = > (ActivityManager) > context.getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE); > > List<ActivityManager.RunningServiceInfo> serviceList > = activityManager.getRunningServices(Integer.MAX_VALUE); > > if(!(serviceList.size() > 0)) > { > return null; > } > > for(int i = 0; i < serviceList.size(); i++) > { > RunningServiceInfo serviceInfo = serviceList.get(i); > ComponentName serviceName = serviceInfo.service; > > if(serviceName.getClassName().equals(className)) > { > return serviceName; > } > } > > return null; > } > > Best regards, > Nicholas > > On 1月6日, 上午10時58分, yukinoba <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ummm... does anyone know? have any ideas? > > > > On 1月5日, 下午12時05分, yukinoba <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > To dear all Android developers, > > > > > Is there a way to check whether a service is already started or not? > > > This issue has been discussed ealier (and much earlier) in April, in > > > the last year, on this forum. > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa. > .. > > > > > However, I wonder that does there have a new solution to this issue > > > rather than using a SharedPreferences to store the service status. Is > > > this functionality to check service is started or not has been added > > > to SDK1.0_r2 or Cupcake branch? > > > > > Thanks for any help or solutions! :-) > > > > > Best regards, > > > Nicholas > > > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
