Thanks for your answers. But they are not convincing.
Context.bindService() has the option of creating a new service if
the service is not created in the first place. The life-cycle events
for a brand new service should be identical. But the SDK doc
disagrees and says this about
Doug,
If the service is not running, I don't see how you can bind to it. So
the binding method has two choices if the service isn't already runing
- start the service or throw an exception.
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Service.onStartCommand() is directly tied to startService(). You call
startService(). That sends the Intent to the service as a command. The
service receives it in onStartCommand(). It executes the intent. That is
one way to use a Service.
Service.bindService() is directly tied to
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