stopService doesn't stop's my service… why?

Question

i have a background service on my android APP that is getting my GPS position and sending it to a remote db. It work\'s fine.

The problem is when i want to stop the

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I found that if the service has GoogleApiClient connected and still get location update, the stopService() has totally no effect, the service's industry() was not called. To fix the problem, I created a function to stop the location service in the service code. Call the stopLocationService() from the activity, and then call stopService. Here is the code example:

public class myLocationService extends Service{
...

    public void stopLocationUpdates() {

        LocationService.FusedLocationApi.removeLocationUpdates(mGoogleApiClient,this);       
        mGoogleApiClient.disconnect();

    }
    ...
} 

In activity,

{
    ...
    if(mService != null && isBound) {

        mService.stopLocationUpdates();
        doUnbindService();
        stopService(new Intent(this,   myLocationService.class));

     }
     ...
}