How to force an IntentService to stop immediately with a cancel button from an Activity?

Question

I have an IntentService that is started from an Activity and I would like to be able to stop the service immediately from the activity with a \"cancel\" button in the activi

Answer 1

Here is some sample code to start/stop Service

To start,

Intent GPSService = new Intent(context, TrackGPS.class);
context.startService(GPSService);

To stop,

context.stopService(GPSService);