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title: "What is a service in Android?"  
description: "What is a service in Android?"  
author: "Kalin"  
published: 2022-04-14  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96792/what-is-a-service-in-android  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "android"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is a service in Android?

What is a [service](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23232/maruti-suzuki-launches-service-festival-initiative) in Android?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- A **service** is a component of an application that can do long-running tasks in the background. It doesn't have a graphical user interface. A service that has been started may continue to operate for some time after the user has switched to another application.
- A component can also bind to a service in order to communicate with it and even do interprocess communication (IPC). A service, for example, can run in the background and manage network transactions, play music, do file I/O, and connect with a content provider.
- A foreground service executes a task that is visible to the user.
- A background service is a programme that runs in the background and is not visible to the user.

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