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What is the difference b/w Service and Intent service in android?

Service : 

  1. The Service can be used in tasks with no UI, but shouldn't be too long. If you need to perform long tasks, you must use threads within Service. 
  2. The Service is triggered by calling method startService().
  3. The Service runs in background but it runs on the Main Thread of the application.
  4. The Service may block the Main Thread of the application.
  5. If you implement a Service, it is your responsibility to stop the service when its work is done, by calling stopSelf() or stopService(). (If you only want to provide binding, you don't need to implement this method).
 Intent Service : 
  1. The IntentService can be used in long tasks usually with no communication to Main Thread. If communication is required, can use Main Thread handler or broadcast intents. Another case of use is when callbacks are needed (Intent triggered tasks).
  2. The IntentService is triggered using an Intent, it spawns a new worker thread and the method onHandleIntent() is called on this thread.
  3. The Service and IntentService may be triggered from any thread, activity or other application component
  4. The IntentService runs on a separate worker thread.
  5. The IntentService cannot run tasks in parallel. Hence all the consecutive intents will go into the message queue for the worker thread and will execute sequentially.
  6. The IntentService stops the service after all start requests have been handled, so you never have to call stopSelf().

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