Our application components can bind to a service and trigger different tasks to be executed. Interacting with a service in Android is very simple. A component binds to a service and, as long there is at least one such component, the service keeps running. When there are no components bound to a service, the service is destroyed.
It is possible to create a background service that is running in the background and have the ability to bind to it.
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