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

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)