What is the difference between an IntentService and a Service? [duplicate]

Answer 1

service: It runs in the background on your system. For example,

1. If you went to a hotel and you give your order for a soup to a server
2. The server gets your order and sends to chef
3. You don't know how the soup is made in the kitchen and what processes are required for making the soup
4. Once your order is ready, the server brings you the soup.

background process: chef making soup

IntentService:- it's consecutive service.. (i.e) when you order many food items at a time to server but the server delivers those items one by one and not deliver them all at once.

Answer 2

Service: Works in the main thread so it will cause an ANR (Android Not Responding) after a few seconds.

IntentService: Service with another background thread working separately to do something without interacting with the main thread.