How to pause a service

Question

I look around but I couldn't find a strict answer. Is it possible to pause a service? or let him wait/sleep?

Thanks.

EDIT for more details: I have a button on my activity that stop/start my service. I would like to be able to pause my service and resume him and when my activity is shutted down only then to stop my service. So is it possible to pause a service?

Answer 1

A service is a process running in another thread. So, to pause a service (Thread), simply do

Thread.sleep();

Check here http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Thread.html#sleep%28long%29

Enjoy.