How to stop service by itself?

Question

I start a service in an activity then I want the service to stop itself after awhile.

I called stopSelf() in the service but it doens't work.

how to make the service stop itself? thanks!!!

Answer 1

Have you tried System.exit(0)?

Answer 2

If by "doesn't work" you mean the process doesn't get killed, then that's how android works. The System.exit(0) or Process.killProcess(Process.myPid()) will kill your process. But that's not the Android way of doing things.

HTH