How to properly stop a foreground service?

Question

I use startForeground to make my service \"persist\" in background and not be killed by the OS.
I remove the service in the main activity onDestroy method by calling sto

Answer 1

I don't know if it's correct but on my app i'm stopping the foreground service here and it works.Check the code

private void stopForegroundService() {

    // Stop foreground service and remove the notification.
    stopForeground(true);

    // Stop the foreground service.
    stopSelf();
}

UPDATE

Call the stopservice from your main class somehow(not from onDestroy) like this:

    Intent intent = new Intent(this, MyForeGroundService.class);
    intent.setAction(MyForeGroundService.ACTION_STOP_FOREGROUND_SERVICE);
    startService(intent);

MyForegroundService.java

 private static final String TAG_FOREGROUND_SERVICE = "FOREGROUND_SERVICE";

public static final String ACTION_START_FOREGROUND_SERVICE = "ACTION_START_FOREGROUND_SERVICE";

public static final String ACTION_STOP_FOREGROUND_SERVICE = "ACTION_STOP_FOREGROUND_SERVICE";

@Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        if (intent != null) {
            String action = intent.getAction();

            switch (action) {
                case ACTION_START_FOREGROUND_SERVICE:
                    startForegroundService();
                    break;
                case ACTION_STOP_FOREGROUND_SERVICE:

                    stopForegroundService();
                    break;
            }
        }
        return START_STICKY;
    }

  private void stopForegroundService() {
    Log.d(TAG_FOREGROUND_SERVICE, "Stop foreground service.");

    // Stop foreground service and remove the notification.
    stopForeground(true);

    // Stop the foreground service.
    stopSelf();
}