Communicate with foreground service android

Question

First question here, but I\'ve been around for a while.

What do I have:

I\'m building an Android app which plays audio streams and online playl

Answer 1

Quoting Android documentation:

A bound service is destroyed once all clients unbind, unless the service was also started

And about the difference between started and bound just take a look to https://developer.android.com/guide/components/services.html

So, you have to create the Service using startService and then bindService, like @Libin does in his/her example. Then, the service will run until you use stopService or stopSelf or until Android decides that it needs resources and kills you.