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title: "Differentiate Activities from Services?"  
description: "Differentiate Activities from Services?"  
author: "Hemant Patel"  
published: 2018-01-09  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32733/differentiate-activities-from-services  
category: "technology"  
tags: ["android"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Differentiate Activities from Services?

Differentiate [Activities](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2306/differentiate-activities-from-services) from [Services](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84760/6-truths-about-content-marketing-services)?

## Answers

### Answer by Prateek sharma

activities are the **crucial** part of an android application. activities work together to form a whole working application. since activities are independent of each other but they work together to form an application. activity can be extended from the **Activity class**. an activity interact directly with the user.

**services** work in the **background** for the long-running application. for example, while listening to songs the user can browse internet easily. they do not have the user interface. a service can be implemented as a **subclass** of **Service**. services do not directly interact with the user as they work in the background.


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