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Arun Kumar
Arun Kumar

Reputation: 877

How to Stop a Service in Android when the application is not running.

I have Started my service in one of my main activity class.The problem is that when my application is not running I want to Stop my service.How can i implement this.Is there any option to stop it without stopping it using any button click or other click events of the control.

Also is there any way to indicate the service is running or not while my application is running

Upvotes: 5

Views: 22228

Answers (4)

Dan Gravell
Dan Gravell

Reputation: 8240

You can use Activity manager on the adb shell:

adb shell dumpsys activity services [text search]

Replace [text search] with some text of your service to look for. You should get a "service record" with the following qualified name for the service:

/<fully.qualified.serviceclass>

Then stop it as so:

adb shell am stop-service <package name>/<fully.qualified.serviceclass>

Note that the service must have exported=true in the AndroidManifest.xml, otherwise you'll get an

Error stopping service

When running this.

Upvotes: 0

Avinash Shinde
Avinash Shinde

Reputation: 385

Using intent you can stop the service.

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

or

just pass the Context.

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

Upvotes: 4

Rocker
Rocker

Reputation: 681

Simply by firing an Intent like this:

Intent intent = new Intent(this, Your_service.class);

Just add this block of code where you have stop your service: 

stopService(intent);

Update:

add this method to each and every activity of your application

public boolean onKeyDown(int key, KeyEvent event)
{
  switch(key.getAction())
  {
      case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME :
         Intent intent = new Intent(this, Your_service.class);
         stopService(intent);
         break;
  }

  return true;
}

Upvotes: 10

Hiral Vadodaria
Hiral Vadodaria

Reputation: 19250

You can start service in onCreate of your launcher activity and stop service in onStop of the same activity. You can refer to this for complete service tutorial:

http://marakana.com/forums/android/examples/60.html

And yes,better you use the same intent variable to start and stop activity.At last,Don't forget to add your service to manifest.

Upvotes: 0

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