What is the proper way to stop a service running as foreground

Question

I am trying to stop a service which is running as foreground service.

The current issue is that when I call stopService() the notification still stays.

So in my solution I have added a receiver which I am registering to inside the onCreate()

Inside the onReceive() method I call stopforeground(true) and it hides the notification. And then stopself() to stop the service.

Inside the onDestroy() I unregistered the receiver.

Is there a more proper way to handle this? because stopService() simply doesn't work.

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

Answer 1

From your activity call startService(intent) and pass it some data that will represent a key to stop the service.

From your service call stopForeground(true) and then stopSelf() right after it.

Answer 2

to start and stop a foreground service from an activity use :

//start     Intent startIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, ForegroundService.class);     startIntent.setAction(Constants.ACTION.STARTFOREGROUND_ACTION);     startService(startIntent); //stop     Intent stopIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, ForegroundService.class);     stopIntent.setAction(Constants.ACTION.STOPFOREGROUND_ACTION);     startService(stopIntent); 

in your foreground service - use (at least) this code:

@Override  public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {     if (intent.getAction().equals(Constants.ACTION.STARTFOREGROUND_ACTION)) {         Log.i(LOG_TAG, "Received Start Foreground Intent ");         // your start service code     }     else if (intent.getAction().equals( Constants.ACTION.STOPFOREGROUND_ACTION)) {         Log.i(LOG_TAG, "Received Stop Foreground Intent");     //your end servce code         stopForeground(true);         stopSelfResult(startId);     }     return START_STICKY; }