Changes to foreground service types for Android 15

We are making the following changes to foreground service types with Android 15.

Media processing

Foreground service type to declare in manifest under
android:foregroundServiceType
mediaProcessing
Permission to declare in your manifest
FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PROCESSING
Constant to pass to startForeground()
FOREGROUND_SERVICE_TYPE_MEDIA_PROCESSING
Runtime prerequisites
None
Description

Service for performing time-consuming operations on media assets, like converting media to different formats. The system allows this service a limited time to run; under normal circumstances, this time limit would be 6 hours out of every 24. (This limit is shared by all of an app's mediaProcessing foreground services.)

Your app should manually stop the media processing service in the following scenario:

If the timeout period is reached, the system calls the service's Service.onTimeout(int, int) method. At this time, the service has a few seconds to call Service.stopSelf(). If the service does not call Service.stopSelf(), an ANR will occur with this error message: "A foreground service of <fgs_type> did not stop within its timeout: <component_name>".

Note: Service.onTimeout(int, int) is not available on Android 14 or lower. On devices running those versions, if a media processing service reaches the timeout period, the system immediately caches the app. For this reason, your app shouldn't wait to get a timeout notification. Instead, it should terminate the foreground service or change it to a background service as soon as appropriate.

Camera

Apps that target Android 15 or higher are not allowed to launch a camera foreground service from a BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast receiver. For more information, see Restrictions on BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast receivers launching foreground services.

Data sync

Apps that target Android 15 or higher are not allowed to launch a data sync foreground service from a BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast receiver. For more information, see Restrictions on BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast receivers launching foreground services.

Media playback

Apps that target Android 15 or higher are not allowed to launch a media playback foreground service from a BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast receiver. For more information, see Restrictions on BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast receivers launching foreground services.

Media projection

Apps that target Android 15 or higher are not allowed to launch a media projection foreground service from a BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast receiver. For more information, see Restrictions on BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast receivers launching foreground services.

Microphone

Apps that target Android 14 (API level 34) or higher are not allowed to launch a microphone foreground service from a BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast receiver. For more information, see Restrictions on BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast receivers launching foreground services.

Phone call

Apps that target Android 15 or higher are not allowed to launch a phone call foreground service from a BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast receiver. For more information, see Restrictions on BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast receivers launching foreground services.