Question

I’m developing an app that makes asynchronous calls to server for notifications. Everything works fine in the main activity. Now what’s bothering me, that i need a service that would poll for notifications when the app is not active (just like GMail stock app). So I start remote service in another process in the main activities onStop function like that:

@Override
public void onStop() {
    super.onStop();
    if(prefs.getBoolean(OPTIONS_KEY_SERVICE, false)) {
        startServiceIntent = new Intent(CloudAlarmsService.MY_SERVICE);
        Bundle b = new Bundle();
        b.putStringArray("duidCodes", duidCodes);
        startServiceIntent.putExtras(b);
        Log.d("SSE_SERVICE", "Starting Service");
        startService(startServiceIntent);
    }
}

It works fine, i get notifications after the activity was closed. Now i would like to stop remote service on activity start (so i won’t have activity and service polling server concurrently). I do it like this:

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    stopService(new Intent(CloudAlarmsService.MY_SERVICE));
    Log.d("SSE_SERVICE", "Stopping service");
}

CloudAlarmsService.MY_SERVICE is a string in my service class:

public class CloudAlarmsService extends Service {
    public static String MY_SERVICE = "cloudindustries.alarms.service.BACKGROUND_SERVICE";
...

and also it is declared in manifest xml like that:

<service android:process=":alarms_poller" android:name=".CloudAlarmsService">
     <intent-filter android:label="@string/serviceStopService">
           <action android:name="cloudindustries.alarms.service.BACKGROUND_SERVICE" />
     </intent-filter>
</service>

But service is not stopped and it keeps working. After i close the main activity another instance of service spawns and continues polling.

Is there something i am missing out?
Or maybe this is a bad use for a remote service or even there is another type of service / manager which could be used for such purpose?

Thanks for any help!

Edit:

Question clarification: Is it possible to stop remote service from different activity (which did not start the service)?

Answer 1

try to stop CloudAlarmsService service as:

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setClass(getApplicationContext(), CloudAlarmsService.class); 
getApplicationContext().stopService(intent);