How to close a service from an activity?

Question

I am trying to make an app that has only one activity and when you press a button the app is closed but a service remains in the background. However, I want to have an option button (in onCreateOptionsMenu) called 'Close App' so when you click it the Activity is finish(); and the service is killed. The problem is that I know how to close the Activity, but not how to kill the service from the Activity. Here is part of my code (I omited couple basic methods for simplicity):

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        bDone.setOnClickListener(this);
}

public void Onclick(){
        Intent serv = new Intent(Main.this, Bground.class);
        startService(serv);

        finish();
}


public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        int id = item.getItemId();
        if (id == R.id.closeApp) {
            finish();
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

I have tried putting the Intent serv; as a global variable and writing stopService(serv); right above the finish(); in the onOptionsItemSeected but it gives me an error.

Thanks!

What kind of error? Post stack trace. – Eugen Pechanec Oct 20 '14 at 08:39 — Eugen Pechanec, Oct 20 '14 at 08:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '14 at 08:15

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Try unbindService() in your onStop().

answered Oct 20 '14 at 08:15

Farouk Touzi

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Using 'serv' as the argument or using no argument: "The method unbindService(ServiceConnection) in the type ContextWrapper is not applicable for the arguments (Intent)". – Hiperfly Oct 20 '14 at 08:18
Look at this example please : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8341667/bind-unbind-service-example-android – Farouk Touzi Oct 20 '14 at 08:28

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

I finally solved it this way

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    int id = item.getItemId();
    if (id == R.id.closeApp) {
        stopService(new Intent(Main.this, Bground.class));
        finish();
    }

Just adding stopService(new Intent(Main.this, Bground.class));

Thanks to this post: How to call stopservice() method of Service class from the calling activity class

How to close a service from an activity?

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