How to stop running services?

Question

I have this code that describes a service:

public class navigation_web extends Service {

    Context context;

    public void navigation() {
        Cursor mCur = getContentResolver().query(Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI,
            Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION, null, null, null);
        mCur.moveToFirst();
        if (mCur.moveToFirst() && mCur.getCount() > 0) {
            while (mCur.isAfterLast() == false) {
                Log.v("titleIdx",
                    mCur.getString(Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION_TITLE_INDEX));
                Log.v("urlIdx",
                    mCur.getString(Browser.HISTORY_PROJECTION_URL_INDEX));
                mCur.moveToNext();
            }
        }
        // Browser.clearSearches(getContentResolver());
    }

    public void onCreate() {
        // Browser.clearHistory(getContentResolver());
        // Browser.clearSearches(getContentResolver());
        navigation();
        // super.onCreate();
    }

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        return super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
    }

    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) {
        return null;
    }
}

I can call this service from an activity using

startService(new Intent(Finalv2Activity.this, navigation_web.class));

But i want to stop this running service after calling it so i can call it again. How can i do this. thanks

related http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5555765/stop-service-in-android — Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com, Feb 14 '16 at 10:26

score 43 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 28 '16 at 09:10

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There is another method that it's called stopService(Intent intent). Inside the service, you can call stopSelf().

edited Feb 28 '16 at 09:10

Mridang Agarwalla

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answered Apr 01 '12 at 12:31

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score 34 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 01 '12 at 12:47

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use the activity stopService() method:

stopService(new Intent(ActivityName.this, ServiceClassName.class));

answered Apr 01 '12 at 12:47

Tal Kanel

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score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 28 '16 at 09:10

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stopService(Intent intent) is the method to stop any specific service

edited Feb 28 '16 at 09:10

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answered Apr 01 '12 at 14:18

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 21 '18 at 09:27

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android.os.Process.killProcess(android.os.Process.myPid());

answered Aug 21 '18 at 09:27

Makvin

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What if the system restarts the service if I kill its PID? `Scheduling restart of crashed service [service] in 1000ms`. I'm having some problems since I've put services on separate processes to be able to kill them by force (using the PID) and I think this is the problem itself. But I don't know how to stop it from restarting. And I have START_NOT_STICKY on it. Would you know what to do here? – Edw590 Jan 04 '21 at 10:26

Rodrigo João Bertotti · Answer 5 · 2018-09-28T20:13:03.880

Complementing @Makvin answer. Stopping a service outside of it

public static ActivityManager.RunningServiceInfo getRunningServiceInfo(Class serviceClass, Context context) {
    ActivityManager manager = (ActivityManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
    for (ActivityManager.RunningServiceInfo service : manager.getRunningServices(Integer.MAX_VALUE)) {
        if (serviceClass.getName().equals(service.service.getClassName())) {
            return service;
        }
    }
    return null;
}

And after

new Timer().schedule(new TimerTask() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            final ActivityManager.RunningServiceInfo serviceInfo = getRunningServiceInfo(service, c);
            if (serviceInfo != null) {
                android.os.Process.killProcess(serviceInfo.pid); //Stop the running service
            }
        }
}, 200);

I'm putting killProcess inside another thread otherwise for some reason all the app is killed. In this way the app is minimized when the process is killed (less bad), suggestions are welcome

I believe you need to put the service you want to kill in a separate process. Like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38318003/8228163. I just did this and this started working!! It was killing the PID of the app itself (I didn't put it inside any Threads), which was the same as the service's PID, so I went looking and found we can put stuff in different processes, which helps a lot (I thought this was already in different processes). And this led me to it which just solved mt problem, so thank you!!! — Edw590, Oct 01 '20 at 16:08

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 25 '18 at 12:44

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call
stopService(new Intent(YourActivity.this, ServiceClassName.class));
see more about services in https://developer.android.com/guide/components/services.html

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answered Feb 27 '18 at 16:34

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