Question

I have a ImageView in Widget , when ever i click over it i start a service using getService as follows

Intent intent = new Intent(context,MyService.class);    
PendingIntent pendingServiceIntent = PendingIntent.getService(context,0 , 
            intent , 0);

and in turn MyService class send a message to handler in onCreate of MyService to start the service with a message

  myHandler.sendEmptyMessage(MSG_FETCH_DATA);

Now i want to stop that service using that ImageView , so how can i do that ? My application demands to stop this service manually by widget so that i am not using stopSelf()

Answer 1

The Android Service doc talks about stopping a service. Specifically, it mentions the

context.stopService(Intent service);

method. You can read more about this method in the Android Context doc.

Hope this helps!