One of my apps has a backgrouod service that uses the START_STICKY return code from onStartCommand to automatically restart when the system kills it.
It seems that this is no longer working on Android KitKat.
Is there any solution for this ?
Should I be doing something different on Kitkat to keep the service running ?
Note: There is a similar discussion on the Android-Devlopers group about swiping the app from the recent apps list behaves. Could this two issues be related ? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-developers/H-DSQ4-tiac
Edit: Saw that there are open bugs on Android issue tracker:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=63793 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=63618
Edit2: The same happens even if service is running using startForeground, in a separate process and with the flag android:stopWithTask="false" in the AndroidManifest.xml file...
Edit3: More related bugs on Android issue tracker:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62091 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=53313 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=104308
Is there some sort of workaround to get the previous behavior ?