Stopping Service Results In Orphaned Thread

I am continuing to study from the book 'Pro Android 2,' working through the Service example that consists of two classes: BackgroundService.java and MainActivity.java. The MainActi

Solution 1:

You should provide a 'running' boolean.

while(running) {
    //do your stuff
}

You want to make it something that you can update. Perhaps your Service's onDestroy() method should call a stopProcessing() method on your Runnable, which will set the 'running' boolean to false.