How to call stopservice method of Service class from the calling activity class

Question

I am trying to call my service class s stopService   method from my activity  But I dont know how to access stopservice method from my activity class  I have the below code but its not working                This is HomeScreen class     public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout main            enablecheck    CheckBox findViewById R id enablecheck                        enablecheck setOnCheckedChangeListener new OnCheckedChangeListener                          Override             public void onCheckedChanged CompoundButton buttonView  boolean isChecked                       TODO Auto-generated method stub                 if enablecheck isChecked                             startService new Intent HomeScreen this  AutoService class                     else                                       stopService new Intent HomeScreen this  AutoService class                                                                                   This is Service Class     public class AutoService extends Service        private static final String TAG    AutoService       private Timer timer          private TimerTask task        Override     public IBinder onBind Intent intent            return null              Override     public void onCreate             Toast makeText this   Auto Service Created   Toast LENGTH LONG  show            Log d TAG   onCreate                  int delay   5000     delay for 5 sec          int period   5000     repeat every sec           timer   new Timer             timer scheduleAtFixedRate task   new TimerTask                public void run                                  System out println  done                                delay  period                  Override     public boolean stopService Intent name               TODO Auto-generated method stub         timer cancel            task cancel            return super stopService name                Any suggestion highly appreciable  Thanks and Regards Mintu

User · Answer

I actually used pretty much the same code as you above. My service registration in the manifest is the following

<service android:name=".service.MyService" android:enabled="true">
            <intent-filter android:label="@string/menuItemStartService" >
                <action android:name="it.unibz.bluedroid.bluetooth.service.MY_SERVICE"/>
            </intent-filter>
        </service>

In the service class I created an according constant string identifying the service name like:

public class MyService extends ForeGroundService {
    public static final String MY_SERVICE = "it.unibz.bluedroid.bluetooth.service.MY_SERVICE";
   ...
}

and from the according Activity I call it with

startService(new Intent(MyService.MY_SERVICE));

and stop it with

stopService(new Intent(MyService.MY_SERVICE));

It works perfectly. Try to check your configuration and if you don't find anything strange try to debug whether your stopService get's called properly.

User · Answer

In Kotlin you can do this     Service   class MyService   Service         init           instance   this            companion object           lateinit var instance  MyService          fun terminateService                 instance stopSelf                       In your activity  or anywhere in your app for that matter    btn terminate service setOnClickListener       MyService terminateService       Note  If you have any pending intents showing a notification in Android s status bar  you may want to terminate that as well

User · Answer

In fact to stopping the service we must use the method stopService   and you are doing in right way   Start service     Intent myService   new Intent MainActivity this  BackgroundSoundService class     startService myService     Stop service     Intent myService   new Intent MainActivity this  BackgroundSoundService class     stopService myService     if you call stopService    then the method onDestroy   in the service is called  NOT the stopService   method       Override     public void onDestroy           timer cancel          task cancel                Log i TAG   onCreate     service stopped               you must implement the onDestroy   method    Here is a complete example including how to start stop the service

User · Answer

Juri  If you add IntentFilters for your service  you are saying you want to expose your service to other applications  then it may be stopped unexpectedly by other applications

User · Answer

That looks like it should stop the service when you uncheck the checkbox  Are there any exceptions in the log  stopService returns a boolean indicating whether or not it was able to stop the service   If you are starting your service by Intents  then you may want to extend IntentService instead of Service  That class will stop the service on its own when it has no more work to do   AutoService  class AutoService extends IntentService        private static final String TAG    AutoService        private Timer timer           private TimerTask task        public onCreate               timer   new Timer              timer   new TimerTask                 public void run                                  System out println  done                                           protected void onHandleIntent Intent i            Log d TAG   onHandleIntent                  int delay   5000     delay for 5 sec          int period   5000     repeat every sec            timer scheduleAtFixedRate timerTask  delay  period                public boolean stopService Intent name               TODO Auto-generated method stub         timer cancel            task cancel            return super stopService name

[android] How to call stopservice() method of Service class from the calling activity class

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