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

Use a variable to record if you have ever bind to a service, and unbind it if the variable is true.

See android official example :

http://androidxref.com/9.0.0_r3/xref/development/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/RemoteService.java#376