When is a started and bound Service destroyed?

Agree that the documentation could be clearer. What they are trying to say is:

• If you call startService(), then the service will keep running unless and until you call stopSerivce() (or stopSelf() from within the service)
• If you call bindService(), then the service will keep running unless and until you call unbindService()
• Therefore, if you call both startService() and bindService(), then the service will keep running until you call both stopService and unbindService(). Neither on its own will stop the service.

Created a very simple Activity and Service and ran the following sequences of start/stop/bind/unbind. I observed that the calls gave the following results.

bind-unbind

bindService() caused:
    onCreate()
    onBind()
unbindService() caused:
    onUnbind()
    onDestroy()

start-bind-unbind-stop

startService() caused:
    onCreate()
    onStartCommand()
bindService() caused:
    onBind()
unbindService() caused:
    onUnbind()
stopService() caused:
    onDestroy()

start-bind-stop-unbind

startService() caused:
    onCreate()
    onStartCommand()
bindService() caused:
    onBind()
stopService() caused:
    -- nothing
unbindService() caused:
    onUnbind()
    onDestroy()

bind-start-stop-unbind

bindService() caused:
    onCreate()
    onBind()
startService() caused:
    onStartCommand()
stopService() caused:
    -- nothing -- still running
unbindService() caused:
    onUnbind()
    onDestroy()

bind-start-unbind-stop

bindService() caused:
    onCreate()
    onBind()
startService() caused:
    onStartCommand()
unbindService() caused:
    onUnbind()
stopService() caused:
    onDestroy()

As you can see, in each case where both bind and start were called, the service kept running until both unbind and stop were called. The sequence of unbind/stop is not important.

Here is the example code that was called from separate buttons in my simple test app:

public void onBindBtnClick(View view) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, ExampleService.class);
    bindService(intent, serviceConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);
}

public void onUnbindBtnClick(View view) {
    if (serviceIsBound) {
        unbindService(serviceConnection);
        serviceIsBound = false;
    }
}

public void onStartBtnClick(View view) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, ExampleService.class);
    startService(intent);
}

public void onStopBtnClick(View view) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, ExampleService.class);
    exampleService.stopService(intent);
}