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    copied!<p>In my Application I am not having any UI part, so I need to start a Service as soon as the Applicaton gets installed on the Device. I saw many links from which the answer was that its not possible but I guess it is surely possible. Just have a look at <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout.labs.planb">PlanB</a> Application on the Android Market that does fulfil my requirement. Below is my Manifest file how I tried, but the Service was not called at all. So, let me know what is the best possible way to start a Service when the Application gets Installed.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p> <p>I also tried using <code>android.intent.action.PACKAGE_ADDED</code> it works fine for detecting the Package for the other Applications but not for itself.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.auto.start" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0" &gt; &lt;uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" /&gt; &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED"/&gt; &lt;application android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" &gt; &lt;service android:name=".MyService"&gt; &lt;intent-filter&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;receiver android:name=".BootUpReceiver"&gt; &lt;intent-filter&gt; &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED"/&gt; &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/&gt; &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_INSTALL" /&gt; &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_ADDED" /&gt; &lt;data android:scheme="package"/&gt; &lt;/intent-filter&gt; &lt;/receiver&gt; &lt;/application&gt; &lt;/manifest&gt; </code></pre>
 

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