Starting an Activity from a Service

Question

Is it possible to start a Android Activity or App, when a push notification is received using a Service?

This only starts a new Activity, when the App is already running...

This is called in a Service when a push notification is received.

Intent in = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
in.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
this.startActivity(in);

Answer 1

Not possible (but possible, see my edit below).

Even if it was possible, do you think it is a good idea that an activity suddenly pops up out of nowhere and replaces anything you were doing? I would surely uninstall this app right away and give it the worst possible rating.

I suggest you show a notification instead.

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After thinking about it, it is possible. You can launch any activity using am start -n through the shell, however I strongly discourage you from doing so. The standard method is showing a notification.