Android Service can be bind without start?

Question

In many articles, tutorials, docs, have read so far, that we call startService() or bindService(), both starts the service. We can call both also, but that\'s a different st

Answer 1

Yes.

bindService(new Intent(this, MyService.class), mConnection, 0);

AFAIK, this will always return true (assuming there is no problem with MyService)

There are two scenarios:

1. The service has previously been started - mConnection's onServiceConnected() is called
2. The service has NOT previously been started - mConnection's onServiceConnected() is NOT called and the service is NOT started. However, as soon as the service is started (by some other means), the onServiceConnected() is then called

In practice, when I call this method, I assume the service is not started until the onServiceConnected() method is called.