Question

Intent helloservice = new Intent(this, HelloService.class);
startService(helloservice);
...
stopService(helloservice);

Why won’t this work? It just keeps running. Am I missing some Binds or something?

By the way, this is my service:

public class HelloService extends Service {
    private Timer timer = new Timer();
    private long INTERVAL = 1000;

    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        startservice();
    }

    private void startservice() {
        timer.scheduleAtFixedRate( new TimerTask() {
            public void run() {
                Log.d("service", "This proves that my service works.");
            }
        }, 0, INTERVAL);
    ; }

    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) {
        return null;
    }
}

Answer 1

It does stop your service. Override onDestroy in your service and you’ll see that it’s called. But service != timer, you have to stop your timer manually.