Android Question BroadcastReceiver Lib use in Starter service

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ThePlankton

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I have a Honeywell CT60 and I'm using the barcode scanner via intents. I'm using the BroadcastReceiver library and I wrapped the logic in a class. The class is instantiated in the Starter service. We have a mix of Android 7 and 8 CT60's. I believe only on the Android 8 versions the BroadcastReceiver stop receiving the broadcasts after the first time it receives one.

Is there anything wrong with the way I'm doing this? Is anything wrong with creating the instance in the Starter service?
 
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Peter Simpson

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Hello @ThePlankton,
Firstly you should use the starter service to start another service that has the BroadcastReceiver code in it, you should not really place that code in a class, I wouldn't anyway

I currently specialise in distributing these little beauties to businesses that are in need of 1D or 2D barcode scanners, you should try placing your BroadcastReceiver code in a service (not the starter service), you shouldn't have any issues after that, and yes, I do have these other laser scanners running Android 8 also working perfectly fine.



Have you read this post???

Background location tracking

Simple example of a foreground service that keeps the process running in the background. The current location is shown in the persistent notification. The app starts at boot and theoretically should run all the time. It also schedules itself to run with StartServiceAt. This can help in cases...
www.b4x.com



Enjoy...
 
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Thank you for the reply.

Would the service hosting the BroadcasterReceiver need to be started as a foreground service?
 
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