How do I make sure that my background services don't keep running when I kill my own app?

Question

I'm using some services like Google Maps and Text To Speech and when I close my app, those same processes are running in the background even after my Android app is closed.

What can I do to make sure that my processes are finished when my app is not in the foreground?

Answer 1

One way to do this will be like this

If you have a homescreen or any screen where you will be killing all activities/components, override the onDestroy and call stopService method

 @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
        stopService(new Intent(this, AppLocationService.class));
    }

In this case my app will be running service named AppLocationService

Answer 2

If you want kill service process forcefully, you can use following code:

Process.killProcess(Process.myPid());