How To Migrate The Deprecated JobIntentService

It’s time to introduce WorkManager into your Android project

But what does that mean? And how do we migrate our deprecated classes that use the JobIntentService?

The JobIntentService is a class that can be used for processing work in the background. When you extend this class, you need to declare it in your AndroidManifest.xml.

Depending on the android version of the respective device, the class uses different APIs to schedule work and runs it in your application’s own process, even when the actual app isn’t running.

Prior Android Q (10), you had to pass at least one constraint, from Q and above it’s also allowed to schedule jobs without any constraints at all.

A simple implementation of a JobIntentService can be seen in the code snippet below.

Additionally we allow to pass in a parameter “yourParameter” that later can be used when handling the work.

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