What is the difference between a background and foreground service?

Question

I am currently writing my first Android application and I keep running into references to background and foreground services. Since I intend on using a service in my applica

Answer 1

Foreground Service is used when User is interaction with application and when Service is doing something visible to user. Background Service is used when even user close application (discard from recents) and when Service is doing something not visible to user like downloading data from server, load data from a ContentProvider etc.. And Foreground Service is less likely to be killed by system on low memory.