Android service stops when the activity finishes.

[Ashish]

In my application i start an service from a activity using startService command. This service is used for uploading file so it will take time.

So what i want is my Activity should be finished and srvice should keep on doing its work. For this purpose after calling startService() i call the activity finish also.

Because of this my service stops in between abruptly while if i dont call finish of activity everytihng works fine. I want to know how to make it possible so that service keep doing its work while Activity (who started this service) is finished.

Thanks in advance for help.