How do I kill an Android thread completely?

Question

I have a service that has its own thread running on background. I\'d like to kill that service including the thread.

I created the thread like this and run it.

Answer 1

use Context.stopService() or stopSelf() method of the Service.

Answer 2

@Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onDestroy();
        Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
    }

Answer 3

to kill the thread , i think you can do like this :

myService.getThread().interrupt();

NOTE : the method Thread.stop() is deprecated

EDIT : : try this

public void stopThread(){
  if(myService.getThread()!=null){
      myService.getThread().interrupt();
      myService.setThread(null);
  }
}

Answer 4

Do it in the service's onDestroy method

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html#onDestroy()

 public void onDestroy(){

         thread.stop();
         super.onDestroy(); 
 }

Then stop the service with stopService(); (this will invoke onDestroy());

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#stopService(android.content.Intent)

Answer 5

The method Thread.stop() is deprecated, you can use Thread.currentThread().interrupt(); and then set thread=null.