How do I kill an Android thread completely?

Question

I have a service that has its own thread running on background. I'd like to kill that service including the thread.

I created the thread like this and run it.

 public class DaemonService extends Service {       private DaemonThread thread;      class DaemonThread extends Thread {           public void run()           {                runDaemon(mArgv.toArray(), mConfig);           }      }       public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) {           thread = new DaemonThread();           thread.start();      }  } 

How do I kill the service and the thread as well? I don't have to worry about data safety..

Answer 1

to kill the thread , i think you can do like this :

myService.getThread().interrupt(); 

NOTE : the method Thread.stop() is deprecated

EDIT : : try this

public void stopThread(){   if(myService.getThread()!=null){       myService.getThread().interrupt();       myService.setThread(null);   } } 

Answer 2

The method Thread.stop() is deprecated, you can use Thread.currentThread().interrupt(); and then set thread=null.