Android: How to safely unbind a service

Question

I have a service which is binded to application context like this:

getApplicationContext().bindService(
                    new Intent(this, ServiceUI.class         


        

Answer 1

Here you can find a nice explanation and source codes how to work with bound services. In your case you should override methods (onServiceConnected and onServiceDisconnected) of ServiceConnection object. Then you can just check mBound variable in your code.