Good practices for services on Android

Question

I am currently using 2 services in my app:

1: LocationService, basically trying to localize the user, and aims to stay alive only when the app is on for

Answer 1

if you bind to a service in an Activity, you need to unbind it too:

@Override
protected void onResume() {

    Log.d("activity", "onResume");
    if (locationServiceBinder == null) {
        doBindLocationService();
    }
            super.onResume();
}

@Override
protected void onPause() {

    Log.d("activity", "onPause");
    if (locationServiceBinder  != null) {
        unbindService(callConnectService);
        locationServiceBinder = null;
    }
    super.onPause();
}

where doBindLocationService():

public void doBindLocationService() {
    Log.d("doBindService","called");

    aimConServ =  new Intent(this, LocationService.class);
    // Create a new Messenger for the communication back
    // From the Service to the Activity
    bindService(aimConServ, callConnectService, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);
}

You need to do this practise for your XmppService as well