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title: "What is a Service?"  
description: "What is a Service?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-06-19  
updated: 2020-09-18  
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category: "android"  
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# What is a Service?

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. Services run without a dedicated GUI, but, like Activities and Broadcast Receivers, they still execute in the main thread of the application's process. A Service could be, facility for an application to expose some of its functionality to other applications.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

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. Services run without a dedicated GUI, but, like Activities and Broadcast Receivers, they still execute in the main thread of the application's process. A Service could be, facility for an application to expose some of its functionality to other applications.


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