starting android service using explicit vs implicit intent

Question

According to the standard Android documentation, the prefered way to start a service (started service that is) is to use an explicit intent like this:

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Answer 1

You don't need to use an implicit intent to start a service or activity in a separate process; however, using a separate process for an Activity is a rare scenario. Using a separate process for a Service is more common, but nevertheless I'd like to know what the use case is.

If your application process is destroyed and then restarted, you'd use startService to reconnect to the Service. If the Service is running, you connect to it, otherwise the Service is restarted. If you then want to kill the Service, you can kill it, or you can run stopService() from your main app.

What is the service doing?