How to stop service at particular time on Android?

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This might be an old question but I came across this issue myself today and figured a way to do it: You can use a new service which stops your service, and start that service in the desired time on a daily basis using alarm manager, like this: Define the service which will stop your service: package com.youractivity; import android.app.Service; import android.content.Intent; import android.os.IBinder; import android.util.Log; public class MyServiceTerminator extends Service { @Override public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) { return Service.START_NOT_STICKY; } public void onCreate() { Intent service = new Intent(this, MyService.class); stopService(service); //stop MyService stopSelf(); //stop MyServiceTerminator so that it doesn't keep running uselessly } @Override public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) { //TODO for communication return IBinder implementation return null; } } add the following code after the one you posted, and run the method inside your activity: private void stopRecurringAlarm(Context context) { Calendar updateTime = Calendar.getInstance(); updateTime.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT+3")); updateTime.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 18); updateTime.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0); Intent intent = new Intent(this, MyServiceTerminator.class); PendingIntent pintent = PendingIntent.getService(context, 1, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT); AlarmManager alarms = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE); alarms.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP,updateTime.getTimeInMillis(), AlarmManager.INTERVAL_DAY, pintent); } this way the service will be scheduled to start as you posted above, and scheduled to stop at 6 as shown in the code I posted.