Out of the options listed: starting, destroyed, running, and paused, paused is not a state in the Android service lifecycle. The services that are started by startService() are created, running, start, and destroy, while the services that are created by bindService() are bind, unbind, create, and destroy.
A service is STARTED when the component of an application, an activity, for example, commences it by calling startService(). A service can now start to run indefinitely in the background after service must have been started, whether the component that started is destroyed or not.
A service is BOUND when the component of the application binds to it through the calling of bindService(). A bound service usually offers a client to server interface that permits the components to interact with the get results, get requests, service, and also do so through processes with IPC, which means Interprocess Communication.