I'd like the following behavior:
The user clicks a notification and Android stops my Service.
The problem is that stopping a Service requires a call to stopService and I cannot easily create a PendingIntent that does that.
So the only way I found to do this is to have my Service receive a special Intent extra that causes the Service to call stopSelf and stop.
Is there a simpler way to directly cancel a Service from a notification click?
You could create a simple BroadcastReceiver
that does the stopService()
call, and use a getBroadcast()
PendingIntent
to trigger it. That BroadcastReceiver
could be registered in the manifest or via registerReceiver()
by the Service
itself (in the latter case, it would do stopSelf()
rather than stopService()
).
That's probably not any simpler than what you have, though, and there is no way to directly trigger a stopService()
call from a PendingIntent
.
Thanks CommonsWare.
Here is a quick illustration of your solution for those who are interested.
Code is in the service class.
// Create Notification
private void initNotification() {
//Register a receiver to stop Service
registerReceiver(stopServiceReceiver, new IntentFilter("myFilter"));
PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, new Intent("myFilter"), PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
notification.setLatestEventInfo(context, contentTitle, contentText,contentIntent);
mNotificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID,notification);
...
}
//We need to declare the receiver with onReceive function as below
protected BroadcastReceiver stopServiceReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
stopSelf();
}
};