How to start and stop android service from a adb shell

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I need to write a shell script to start and stop an android service

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You need to add android exported  true  to start service from ADB command line  Then your manifest looks something like this    lt  -- Service declared in manifest -- gt   lt service     android name   YourServiceName      android exported  true      android launchMode  singleTop  gt       lt intent-filter gt           lt action android name  com your package name YourServiceName   gt           lt action android name  android intent action MAIN    gt           lt category android name  android intent category LAUNCHER    gt       lt  intent-filter gt   lt  service gt   lt  -- Note  Service is exported to start it using ADB command -- gt    And then from ADB  To start service   adb shell am startservice com your package name  YourServiceName  To stop service  on Marshmallow    adb shell am stopservice com your package name  YourServiceName  To stop service  on Jelly Bean    adb shell am force-stop com your package name

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Starting a service   adb shell am startservice          start a Service   Options are        --user    current  Specify which user to run as  if not           specified then run as the current user    Stopping a service   adb shell am stopservice           stop a Service   Options are        --user    current  Specify which user to run as  if not           specified then run as the current user

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To stop a service  you have to find service name using  adb shell dumpsys activity services  lt your package gt   for example  adb shell dumpsys activity services com xyz something This will list services running for your package  Output should be similar to  ServiceRecord xxxxx u0 com xyz something beta xyz something abc XYZService   Now select your service and run  adb shell am stopservice  lt service name gt    For example  adb shell am stopservice com xyz something beta xyz something abc XYZService  similarly  to start service  adb shell am startservice  lt service name gt   To access service  your service in AndroidManifest xml  should set exported  quot true quot   lt  -- Service declared in manifest -- gt   lt service     android name  quot  YourServiceName quot      android exported  quot true quot      android launchMode  quot singleTop quot  gt       lt intent-filter gt           lt action android name  quot com your package name YourServiceName quot   gt           lt action android name  quot android intent action MAIN quot    gt           lt category android name  quot android intent category LAUNCHER quot    gt       lt  intent-filter gt   lt  service gt

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I can start service through   am startservice com xxx  service XXXService   but i don t know how to stop it yet

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You may get an error   Error  app is in background    while using   adb shell am startservice    in Oreo  26    This requires services in the foreground   Use the following   adb shell am start-foreground-service com some package name  YourServiceSubClassName

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Responding to pzulw s feedback to sandroid about specifying the intent   The format of the component name is described in the api docs for ComponentName unflattenFromString      It splits the string at the first      taking the part before as the package name and the part after as the class name  As a special convenience  to use  for example  when parsing component names on the command line   if the     is immediately followed by a     then the final class name will be the concatenation of the package name with the string following the      Thus  com foo  Blah  becomes package  com foo  class  com foo Blah

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If you want to run the script in adb shell  then I am trying to do the same  but with an application  I think you can use  am start  command  usage  am  subcommand   options   start an Activity  am start  -D   -W   lt INTENT gt      -D  enable debugging     -W  wait for launch to complete    start a Service  am startservice  lt INTENT gt     send a broadcast Intent  am broadcast  lt INTENT gt   start an Instrumentation  am instrument  flags   lt COMPONENT gt      -r  print raw results  otherwise decode REPORT KEY STREAMRESULT      -e  lt NAME gt   lt VALUE gt   set argument  lt NAME gt  to  lt VALUE gt      -p  lt FILE gt   write profiling data to  lt FILE gt      -w  wait for instrumentation to finish before returning  start profiling  am profile  lt PROCESS gt  start  lt FILE gt  stop profiling  am profile  lt PROCESS gt  stop  start monitoring  am monitor  --gdb  lt port gt       --gdb  start gdbserv on the given port at crash ANR   lt INTENT gt  specifications include these flags       -a  lt ACTION gt    -d  lt DATA URI gt    -t  lt MIME TYPE gt        -c  lt CATEGORY gt   -c  lt CATEGORY gt             -e --es  lt EXTRA KEY gt   lt EXTRA STRING VALUE gt            --esn  lt EXTRA KEY gt            --ez  lt EXTRA KEY gt   lt EXTRA BOOLEAN VALUE gt            -e --ei  lt EXTRA KEY gt   lt EXTRA INT VALUE gt            -n  lt COMPONENT gt    -f  lt FLAGS gt        --grant-read-uri-permission   --grant-write-uri-permission       --debug-log-resolution       --activity-brought-to-front   --activity-clear-top       --activity-clear-when-task-reset   --activity-exclude-from-recents       --activity-launched-from-history   --activity-multiple-task       --activity-no-animation   --activity-no-history       --activity-no-user-action   --activity-previous-is-top       --activity-reorder-to-front   --activity-reset-task-if-needed       --activity-single-top       --receiver-registered-only   --receiver-replace-pending        lt URI gt

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I m a beginner in Android  but got it working like this   in AndroidManifest xml  make sure you  inside  lt application gt   have something like this    lt service android name  com some package name YourServiceSubClassName  android permission  com some package name YourServiceSubClassName  gt       lt intent-filter gt           lt action android name  com some package name YourServiceSubClassName   gt       lt  intent-filter gt   lt  service gt    where YourServiceSubClassName extend android app Service is your java class that is the service  Where com some package is the package name  for me both in AndroidManifest xml and in Java   Used a javabeat net article as help  look for  lt service gt   Note also  supposedly between the package name and the class name there should be  service  in the text  I guess this is some convention  but for me this caused ClassNotFoundException that I m yet to solve   Then  install your apk  I did from eclipse but also adb install -r yourApkHere apk should work  Uninstall is adb uninstall com some package name  btw   You can start it from host system like this  thanks Just a Tim and MrRoy   adb shell am startservice com some package name  YourServiceSubClassName   interestingly  I didn t need -n   To stop  I use  adb shell am force-stop com some package name   Hope it helps   As I m a beginner  please feel freet to edit comment to fix any misconceptions  eg  probably regarding  service  in the component     name

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For anyone still confused about how to define the service name parameter  the forward slash goes immediately after the application package name in the fully qualified class name    So given an application package name of  app package name  And a full path to the service of  app package name example package path MyServiceClass  Then the command would look like this   adb shell am startservice app package name  example package path MyServiceClass

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You should set the android exported attribute of the service to  true   in order to allow other components to invoke it  In the AndroidManifest xml file  add the following attribute    lt service android exported  true   gt  lt  service gt    Then  you should be able to start the service via adb   adb shell am startservice com package name  YourServiceName   For more info about the android exported attribute see this page

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am startservice  lt INTENT gt   nbsp  nbsp   or actually from the OS shell  adb shell am startservice  lt INTENT gt

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