Thank you jotobjects, Kostya & Streets of Boston for your replies. They were very helpful while fixing this problem. Here are the 2 important changes I made to get it working exactly the way I wanted:
1. Removed the SharedPreferences checks while calling startService() inside the activity A. It just calls *startService(intent)* & *bindService(intent, this, 0)* inside the *onCreate()* method. 2. Service S is now a plain *android.app.Service* with a handler thread (and looper) for doing web-service calls on location changed events (note that S is also a *LocationListener*). 3. Introduced a control on the UI which when clicked causes activity A to send a certain message to the service S. Subsequently, the service does some cleanup and calls *stopSelf()* and gracefully exits. Thank you all once again for the help. Sincere Regards, Kalyan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
