[Android] Oreo: Add isForeground() utility method

[Geoffrey Métais]

vlc-android | branch: master | Geoffrey Métais <geoffrey.metais at gmail.com> | Fri Sep  1 12:49:57 2017 +0200| [227ef2e8f75eed5c3f250600f37cf6771b48a677] | committer: Geoffrey Métais

Oreo: Add isForeground() utility method

> https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-android/commit/227ef2e8f75eed5c3f250600f37cf6771b48a677
---

 vlc-android/src/org/videolan/vlc/util/Util.java | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/vlc-android/src/org/videolan/vlc/util/Util.java b/vlc-android/src/org/videolan/vlc/util/Util.java
index 0254fded1..c45202c41 100644
--- a/vlc-android/src/org/videolan/vlc/util/Util.java
+++ b/vlc-android/src/org/videolan/vlc/util/Util.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 package org.videolan.vlc.util;
 
+import android.content.Context;
 import android.content.Intent;
 import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
 import android.content.pm.ResolveInfo;
@@ -149,6 +150,7 @@ public class Util {
         for (T newItem : items) {
             for (T oldItem : dataset) {
                 if (newItem.equals(oldItem)) {
+                    //noinspection UnusedAssignment
                     oldItem = newItem;
                     continue outer;
                 }
@@ -166,4 +168,17 @@ public class Util {
         contentBuilder.append(album);
         return contentBuilder.toString();
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Starts a service in Foreground in Android 8+
+     * To be removed with AppCompat 26+
+     * @param ctx the context
+     * @param intent service intent to start
+     */
+    public static void startService(Context ctx, Intent intent) {
+        if (VLCApplication.isForeground())
+            ctx.startService(intent);
+        else
+            ctx.startForegroundService(intent);
+    }
 }