[android-developers] Re: Swipe app out of recent tasks permanently kills app (like force-stop) even though it's running background services!

You have to use START_STICKY which is a sticky service, also add flag FLAG_FROM_BACKGROUND while starting your service. when you use START_STICKY make sure you do not pass any data via intent, since your app/activity is killed, but you can re-start the service.
Ex : you need to read the values from Sensors and do operations. all the values are generated within the service only.

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        // We want this service to continue running until it is explicitly stopped, so return sticky.
        return START_STICKY;
    }

you have to call stopService(); manually to kill the service, else you will use huge memory.

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