Android Service notification

you need to start your service using startService() method.

2 Answers. Show activity on this post. Depends on the code, you can run the background service forever or close it as soon as the app has been exited. Apart from that, OS itself can close the background service if no action is performed by it for several minutes.

Android – “App Run in Background Option”

Service is a component which runs in the background , without direct interaction with the user. As the service has no user interface it is not bound to the lifecycle of an activity. Services are used for repetitive and potential long running operations, checking for new data, data processing, indexing content, etc.