Services are components running without a user interface apart from notifications in the status bar or per Toast and with a conceptual affinity toward long-running processes. Services can be started by apps , or they can be bound to by apps, or both.
Services come in two flavors: foreground services and background services . While at first glance it seems to be a contradiction speaking of “foreground” services, since so many people tend to tell you that “services run in the background,” foreground services do actually exist, and the ...
