Android Question How to detect if the application is launched by onstart or by the application icon.

[Josefc]

I need to know how an application is launched (by code, of course), to give different answers, depending on the case

In other words:

-"start at boot" of the application
- or through the application icon.

Thanks in advance

Greetings

 

[JohnC]

StartingIntent will help you determine how your app/service was started:

Automatic Foreground Mode

This is a new feature added in B4A v8.0. Starting from Android 8.0, services cannot be simply started while the app is in the background or not running at all. Background means that there isn't any visible activity or any service in foreground state (Service.StartForeground). Common cases...

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[JohnC]

Here is some more specific info:

Detect APP's Launch Method

I want my APP to behave differently depending on whether the user launched it by pressing the launcher icon or by turning on the phone (The APP has a a service module which has StartAtBoot set to True). Is there some way (code) to detect which way it was started?

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[Josefc]

Fantástic...
thanks a lot