Stopping a background service from notification

Question

I have a background service in which I want to show a notification which allows the user to stop it.

In the android SDK docs it says an activity is used to normally

Answer 1

So I am wondering if I need to create an activity to stop the service or can I directly stop the service when user selects the notification,

You cannot directly stop the service from a Notification. You can start the service, using an Intent that has an action string or extra or something that the service sees in onStartCommand() and triggers it to call stopSelf().