The Differences between Service and IntentService in Android

Differences

• Service class uses the application's main thread, while IntentService creates a worker thread and uses that thread to run the service.
• IntentService creates a queue that passes one intent at a time to onHandleIntent(). Thus, implementing a multi-thread should be made by extending Service class directly.
• Service class needs a manual stop using stopSelf(). Meanwhile, IntentService automatically stops itself when there is no intent in queue. 
• IntentService implements onBind() that returns null. This means that the IntentService can not be bound by default.
• IntentService implements onStartCommand() that sends Intent to queue and to onHandleIntent().