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.

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

• When the transcoding operation finishes or reaches a failure state, have the service call Service.stopForeground() and Service.stopSelf() to stop the service completely.

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.