How to stop service by itself?

Question

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 t

Answer 1

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();