Describe Android service life cycle along with diagram

 Describe Android service life cycle along with diagram

● A service is an application component which runs without direst interaction with the user in the background. 

 ● Services are used for repetitive and potentially long running operations, i.e., Internet downloads, checking for new data, data processing, updating content providers and the like. 

● Service can either be started or bound we just need to call either startService() or bindService() from any of our android components. Based on how our service was started it will either be “started” or “bound” 

                                                  

SERVICE LIFECYCLE

. Started

a. A service is started when an application component, such as an activity, starts it by calling startService(). 

 b. Now the service can run in the background indefinitely, even if the component that started it is destroyed.

 2. Bound 

 a. A service is bound when an application component binds to it by calling bindService().

 b. A bound service offers a client-server interface that allows components to interact with the service, send requests, get results, and even do so across processes with InterProcess Communication (IPC).

 c. Like any other components service also has callback methods. These will be invoked while the service is running to inform the application of its state. Implementing these in our custom service would help you in performing the right operation in the right state.

 • d. There is always only a single instance of service running in the app. If you are calling startService() for a single service multiple times in our