Here, Once again I am back with another article in my series of MonoAndroid, for previous articles in series, please refer bottom part of article. In this article I am going to demonstrate creating Started Service in Mobile App. It similar to windows services however with a twist it is created and run by front application as for window service they have to be installed and managed by their own console. According to Android Developer Guide "A Service is an application component representing either an application's desire to perform a longer-running operation while not interacting with the user or to supply functionality for other applications to use." There are two types of services one is Started Services and other is bound services. The "Started Service" will keep running till it's ask to shutdown and in case of "Bound Service" its lifetime attached to application which created it. Here the Life Cycle diagram for the Started Service:-


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