How to stop an android Background IntentService?

Question

My requirement is simple.

I have a simple app. 2 Buttons. and 1 service. Conditions: Button1 clicked,-> Start the IntentService.Button2 clicked -> Stop the IntentService.

The first part works fine. I can start the IntentService using startService(intent) command. However, I cannot stop the IntentService. ie, stopService(intent) command isn't working. It is neither throwing an error nor doing anything.

Can anyone please shed some light on this??

I searched and found this question How to stop an IntentService? but it doesn't answer my need.

Answer 1

You can't stop an IntentService manually. An IntentService will stop itself automatically, when there are no more intents for that service to process.

If you want to stop a service by clicking a button, use a normal Service .

Answer 2

I figured it out. We cannot stop an IntentService till it completes all the steps in the process.

However, we can place an intermediary check Ex: if(boolean continue == true){then do next}.esle {stopSelf(); } And we can change the value of 'continue'to false and instead of 'StopService' command.

Hope it helps someone who has similar problem like me.. :-)

Answer 3

However, you cannot kill the IntentService . The service will stop automatically after all of thread queues completed. Though you call MyIntentService.this.stopSelf(); from Activity , the service will stops, but the thread still running in background process.