---
title: 'Service Behavior'
url: 'https://www.twelvetone.tv/docs/operating-systems/vaandroid/vaandroid-developer-guide/project-anatomy/vaandroid-xml/service-behavior'
markdown: 'https://www.twelvetone.tv/docs/operating-systems/vaandroid/vaandroid-developer-guide/project-anatomy/vaandroid-xml/service-behavior.md'
date: '2026-09-25'
description: 'Settings that determine how and when a Vaandroid plugin is registered by the runtime. autoa'
taxonomy:
  category:
    - docs
---

# Service Behavior

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Settings that determine how and when a Vaandroid plugin is registered by the runtime.

autoactivateThe runtime will create a plugin service wrapping the bundle and register it in the system. The default behavior is to let the bundle take care of this manually. See [PluginImpl](https://www.twelvetone.tv/docs/operating-systems/vaandroid/vaandroid-developer-guide/vaandroid-architecture/pluginimpl)```
<vaandroid>
  <service>
    <autoactivate>true</autoactivate>
  </service>
</vaandroid>
```

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