Unbind external service android Paho MQTT ServiceConnectionLeaked error

Question

What's the proper way to unbind an external service (located in another jar) file in Android?

I declare the service (located in org.eclipse.paho.android.service-1.0.2.jar ) in the manifest file as:

<service android:name="org.eclipse.paho.android.service.MqttService" >
</service>

Service source here

And the service runs properly. However, on exiting the app I get a ServiceConnectionLeaked error and after doing some searching I found that I need to call unbindService(...); on the onDestroy() method of the activity.

Log:

24915-24915/com.testapp.testmqtt E/ActivityThread﹕ Activity com.testapp.testmqtt.MainActivity has leaked ServiceConnection org.eclipse.paho.android.service.MqttAndroidClient$MyServiceConnection@426c50d8 that was originally bound here
    android.app.ServiceConnectionLeaked: Activity com.testapp.testmqtt.MainActivity has leaked ServiceConnection org.eclipse.paho.android.service.MqttAndroidClient$MyServiceConnection@426c50d8 that was originally bound here

However, I do not have a ServiceConnection to pass to unbindService() since I'm not manually starting the service. Is there any way to obtain the ServiceConnection of that service and unbind it?

Answer 1

I just put this code in onDestroy of activity

    client.unregisterResources();
    client.close();