i was wondering if it was possible to terminate an activity using a service.
i figure created the service using startService(...) and the service should terminate the activity that launched it

for example
my steps are
Start main activity>main starts sub>sub starts service

service runs>service decides to kill the activity that started it (so sub and activity are closed)

basically right now if i start a service and then exit the app using the home screen...the onpause()/onfreeze() save the app but i want the service to remove the saved state under certain circumstances...

once i started service.After that how can i findout whether service is running or not?Is there any condition for checking service is activated or not?if yes means plz give me reply soon .

E.Jyothsna wrote:once i started service.After that how can i findout whether service is running or not?Is there any condition for checking service is activated or not?if yes means plz give me reply soon .

I haven't come up with an elegant way of doing this, but I had my service periodically write to the log or do a Toast.makeText() to see if it was running or not.

thank u for giving reply.once let me check