Re: [android-developers] starting a service after installation

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:15 PM, guich <guihazan@gmail.com> wrote:
> How can i start a service at the first time that the service apk was
> installed, without user intervention?

You can't on Android 3.1+.

On Android 3.0 and below, you could use various hacks (e.g., register
for every damn system broadcast) and start up as soon as one of those
gets triggered.

On Android 3.1+, the user must manually launch an activity of yours
before any broadcast receiver will work, including
ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED. Hence, AFAIK, there is no way to start a
service without user intervention.

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