Android Question Firebase - Service MeasurementBrokerService

[gravel]

I'm using Firebase notifications and saw that the service MeasurementBrokerService was appearing as a running service with my App, adding a big chunk to it's apparent memory usage (on a 4.4.4 device and a 6.01 device).

See also this Stackoverflow post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...rservice-and-how-to-stop-it/42162155#42162155

I've changed the manifest text to:

'************ Firebase Base ************
CreateResourceFromFile("google-services", "google-services.json")
AddPermission(android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE)
AddPermission(android.permission.INTERNET)
AddPermission(android.permission.WAKE_LOCK)
AddPermission(com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE)
AddPermission(${applicationId}.permission.C2D_MESSAGE)
AddManifestText( <permission android:name="${applicationId}.permission.C2D_MESSAGE"
  android:protectionLevel="signature" />)
AddApplicationText(
<receiver
  android:name="com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementReceiver"
  android:enabled="false">
  <intent-filter>
  <action android:name="com.google.android.gms.measurement.UPLOAD"/>
  </intent-filter>
  </receiver>

  <service
  android:name="com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementService"
  android:enabled="false"
  android:exported="false"/>
   <provider
  android:authorities="${applicationId}.firebaseinitprovider"
  android:name="com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider"
  android:exported="false"
  android:initOrder="100" />
    <receiver
  android:name="com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementReceiver"
  android:enabled="false">
  <intent-filter>
  <action android:name="com.google.android.gms.measurement.UPLOAD"/>
  </intent-filter>
  </receiver>

  <service
  android:name="com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementService"
  android:enabled="false"
  android:exported="false"/>
   <receiver
  android:name="com.google.firebase.iid.FirebaseInstanceIdReceiver"
  android:exported="true"
  android:permission="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.SEND" >
  <intent-filter>
  <action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE" />
  <action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.REGISTRATION" />
  <category android:name="${applicationId}" />
  </intent-filter>
  </receiver>
    <receiver
  android:name="com.google.firebase.iid.FirebaseInstanceIdInternalReceiver"
  android:exported="false" />


  <service
  android:name="com.google.firebase.iid.FirebaseInstanceIdService"
  android:exported="true">
  <intent-filter android:priority="-500">
  <action android:name="com.google.firebase.INSTANCE_ID_EVENT" />
  </intent-filter>
  </service>
)
'************ Firebase Base (end) ************

and the analytics bit in the .json reads

      "services": {
        "analytics_service": {
          "status": 2
        },

This seems to have stopped the service being attached to the app and everything seems to be working OK.

But does anyone forsee a problem from the changes that I've made?

 

[gravel]

I spoke to soon, after the app has been running for a while the service has now reappeared.

Any suggestions how to stop this service?

 

[Erel]

I don't think that you will gain anything from this.

Based on that answer you need to add:

AddApplicationText(
<meta-data android:name="firebase_analytics_collection_deactivated" android:value="true"/>)

 

[gravel]

Thanks, but that doesn't seem to stop it reappearing as soon as you interact with the App.

This https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v4/advanced refers to an App level opt-out.

You can enable an app-level opt out flag that will disable Google Analytics across the entire app. Note that this flag must be set each time the app starts up and will default to false.

To get the app-level opt out setting, use:

boolean isOptedOut =GoogleAnalytics.getInstance(this).getAppOptOut();
To set the app-level opt out, use:

GoogleAnalytics.getInstance(this).setAppOptOut(true);
In a typical implementation, an app might listen for a change in SharedPreferences, and update the Google Analytics opt out setting accordingly:

SharedPreferences userPrefs =PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);

userPrefs.registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(newSharedPreferences.OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(){

@override
publicvoid onSharedPreferenceChanged(SharedPreferences sharedPreferences,String key){
if(key.equals(TRACKING_PREF_KEY)){
GoogleAnalytics.getInstance(getApplicationContext()).setAppOptOut(sharedPreferences.getBoolean(key,false));
}else{
// Any additional changed preference handling.
}
}});

Might this do the trick, how would I set the flag?

 

[Erel]

This is for Google Analytics, not FirebaseAnalytics.

 

[gravel]

OK, thank you.