I start a service in an activity then I want the service to stop itself after a while.
I called stopSelf() in the service but it doesn't work.
How to make the service stop itself?
11 Answers
If by "doesn't work" you mean the process doesn't get killed, then that's how android works. The System.exit(0) or Process.killProcess(Process.myPid()) will kill your process. But that's not the Android way of doing things.
HTH
I know this is an old question, but in my case (floating window as service) I had to remove the view first, and then call stopSelf().
windowManager.removeView(floatingView);
stopSelf();
if you use separate Thread in your service, after stopping service by calling stopSelf() or stopService() the Thread keeps running. if u want to stop Thread u should call Thread.interrupted() in the Thread(it might cause an Exception if Thread is already sleeping)
Related