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

Not sure about all the above answers, it seemed far too complicated while none of these would fit the issue I had.

Only binding/unbinding once at a time, and the service was definitely bound at the time of the unbind() call. Don't want to leak anything, so I just made sure I was using the same context for the bind() and unbind() calls and that solved it permanently! Doing something like this:

any_context.getApplicationContext().bind(...);

...

another_context.getApplicationContext().unbind(...);