Can Android Service outlive Application object?

Issue

So, the question is pretty self-explanatory. Can custom Application object (the one I declare in AndroidManifest.xml) be destroyed earlier than the launched Service, provided that Service is not launched in another process?

My intuition says it's not possible, since we can access Application object in Service by calling getApplication(), plus I've not seen anything like this in documentation, but Android is full of unexpected funny behaviors.

Solution

Can custom Application object (the one I declare in AndroidManifest.xml) be destroyed earlier than the launched Service, provided that Service is not launched in another process?

Each process gets its own Application object, and that object lives as long as the process does. Hence, any component (e.g., a Service) cannot outlive the Application from its own process.

Answered By - CommonsWare