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androidservice
discodowney
discodowney

Reputation: 1507

My service will not die (even though my code says it is dead)

SO ive been using the following tutorial to get a gps service going:

http://www.marioalmeida.eu/2014/02/21/how-to-do-android-ipc-using-messenger-to-a-remote-service/

I got it working and my GPS works fine and its all good. My problem is that I cant kill the service. I thought calling unbind on it would kill it but it didnt. I am using a wakelock to keep the service awake so it can record the GPS co-ordinates (its a location tracker). Then after I unbind I release the wakelock. I alos have a piece of code that checks if the service is running. Before I call unbind (this is where I release the wakelock too) it is but after I call unbind it is not.

The problem is in my service I have toast messages popping up so I know where the code is. Even after I kill the service these toast messages are still popping up.

Can anyone tell me how my service could still be running after I have unbound and checked that the service is not running? Im completely stumped

Upvotes: 0

Views: 68

Answers (1)

tyczj
tyczj

Reputation: 73721

Unbinding a service does not stop a service. You can stop your service by simply calling stop service:

Intent i = new Intent(context,MyService.class)
stopService(i);

or you can use stopSelf() inside your service class.

Upvotes: 2

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