title: Creating a Service in Android
body: <p>I'm creating my first android app and I need to use a service. The UI will have a checkbox (CheckBoxPreference) that will be used to turn the service on/off and the service will only be accessed by my app (there's no need to share it).</p>
  <p>So far the UI for this functionality is ready and I know how to respond to the event. What I don't know, how to create a service nor how to connect to it whatsoever?</p>
  <p>The idea is that the service continues to listen for events and responding to them on the background and that the application is only to used to turn it on/off or to change some settings.</p>
  <p>I've looked for tutorials on the web but I don't seem to get the process.</p>