Stop a service after MainActivity is closed (EDITED)

Question

I think im not clear at all, i do want the service to persist even if the main activity is destroyed via user action or android system does it, it does it well, but when the app

Answer 1

Maybe all you need to do is check to see if it's null before attempting to stop it:

private void stopBg(){
     if(BgServiceIntent != null)
         stopService(BgServiceIntent);
}