Question

I have three activities in my app and all those activities requires access to service. So if i start the service three times will it be started three times or only once. And if once will the previous data be erased when service is restarted.

Thanx

Answer 1

if you are starting service with startService then for first time it’s onCreate method will be called and it does not matter how many times you have started the service but its method onStartCommand(Intent, int, int) will be called with respect to your startService call. Service stops when you call stopService irrespective of how many times you have called startService.

Don’t forget to release the resources, threads when you stop the servive.

you can refer this doc:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html