Android:Service Activity Start and Stop Control

Hel开发者_C百科lo Android Gurus For API Level 7 and Above--> I am badly struck trying to figure out a solution for the following problem:

I have an activity which i would use to Kick start an Service. This is an infinite loop service which can run forever. I would like to disconnect the Service from Activity and at a later point of time i will call the activity again which should tell me the current state of Service and i can Stop the service.

Is something like this possible. Right now my Service is Sticky and i am not able to Close the activity as Service is running for ever and i am also not able to Stop the service from activity.

Code samples would be of great help!!! Thanks in advance...

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Multiple questions:

1. You can disconnect/reconnect from the Service using bind. Unfortunately the best advice to give there is to carefully read the documentation for Service at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html: look carefully at the Local Service example, as it demonstrates what you need to do to bind/unbind to a sticky service.

2. To stop it, once you've bound you can call stopSelf.

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Start the service non sticky from the Activity.

In the service control the flow logically, say calling onStart() to keep it running. Call onDestroy() when you have to stop.