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

I think that guide is not completely correct as mentioned here Surya Wijaya Madjid. Memory leaks can occur when bound service is destryed and not re-connected yet.

I think that this approach is needed:

Service mService;

private final ServiceConnection mServiceConnection = new ServiceConnection()
{
    boolean bound = false;

    @Override
    public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName name)
    {
        mService = null;
    }

    @Override
    public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName name, IBinder service)
    {
        mService = ((MyService.ServiceBinder) service).getService();

        if (!bound)
        {
            // do some action - service is bound for the first time
            bound = true;
        }
    }
};

@Override
public void onDestroy()
{
    if (mService != null)
    {
        // do some finalization with mService
    }

    if (mServiceConnection.bound)
    {
        mServiceConnection.bound = false;
        unbindService(mServiceConnection);
    }
    super.onDestroy();
}

public void someMethod()
{
    if (mService != null)
    {
        // to test whether Service is available, I have to test mService, not     mServiceConnection.bound
    }
}