Running Services

Question

Hello, I have a question on List.

Basically I have an application(API) I am testing.

When a start() method is called on the API, a bunch of things happen including starting a background service.

I have written / modified some code from the Web:

public boolean isServiceRunning(String serviceName){
    boolean isRunning = false;

    ActivityManager actvityManager = (ActivityManager)getContext().getSystemService( Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE );
    List<RunningAppProcessInfo> procInfos = actvityManager.getRunningAppProcesses();
    RunningAppProcessInfo proc = null;
    for(int i = 0; i < procInfos.size(); i++){  
        proc = (RunningAppProcessInfo)procInfos.get(i);
        if(proc.processName.equalsIgnoreCase(serviceName)){
            isRunning = true;
        }
    }
    return isRunning;
}   

When I pass in the process name prior to calling start, the method returns false as expected.

When I call start() the method returns true as expected.

However when I call stop() after start() I expect the service to stop. Looking at the running services section in the android applications section I can see the service has in fact stopped but the call to my method is still returning true.

Any thoughts... I suspect it is context related but really at a loss

Thanks in advance

Sean