Stop service in an activity

Question

I\'m using following code to stop my service

Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, UsageRecorderService.class);
stopService(intent);

An

Answer 1

This code would work

public class UsageRecorderService extends IntentService {

    private boolean mStop = false;

    public UsageRecorderService() {
        super("UsageRecorder");
    }

    public final Object sLock = new Object();

    public void onDestroy() {
        synchronized (sLock) {
            mStop = true;
        }
    }


    @Override
    protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {
        while (true) {
            synchronized (sLock) {
                if (mStop) break;
            }
            UsageRecorder.recordUsages(this, false);
            SystemClock.sleep(10000);
        }
    }

}

You can use stopService

Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, UsageRecorderService.class);
stopService(intent);

Also I recommend to read Services guide to understand what is going there.