What is the difference between a Headless Fragment and a Service in Android?

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Service

A Service is an application component representing either an application\'s desire to perform a longer-running operation while not interacting with the use

Answer 1

Generally speaking:

Headless Fragments are meant to encapsulate data. Headless fragments are meant to encapsulate data which can be shared between various application components (since they can exist independently of a UI component).

Services are meant to encapsulate processing. They are more independent (and therefore also more heavy-weight, resource wise) than fragments are; they sit at a different level of abstraction and can last longer, in a system.

There is overlap between the two.