@ngdoc overview @name Developer Guide: Angular Services: Creating Angular Services @description While angular offers several useful services, for any nontrivial application you'll find it useful to write your own custom services. To do this you begin by registering a service factory function that angular's DI will use to create the service object when it is needed. The `angular.service` method accepts three parameters: - `{string} name` - Name of the service. - `{function()} factory` - Factory function(called just once by DI). - `{Object} config` - Configuration object with the following properties: - `$inject` - {Array.} - Array of service ids this service depends on. These services will be passed as arguments into the factory function in the same order specified in the `$inject` array. Defaults to `[]`. - `$eager` - {boolean} - If true, the service factory will be called and the service will be instantiated when angular boots. If false, the service will be lazily instantiated when it is first requested during instantiation of a dependant. Defaults to `false`. The `this` of the factory function is bound to the root scope of the angular application. All angular services participate in {@link dev_guide.di dependency injection (DI)} by registering themselves with angular's DI system (injector) under a `name` (id) as well as by declaring dependencies which need to be provided for the factory function of the registered service. The ability to swap dependencies for mocks/stubs/dummies in tests allows for services to be highly testable. Following is an example of a very simple service. This service depends on the `$window` service (which is passed as a parameter to the factory function) and is just a function. The service simply stores all notifications; after the third one, the service displays all of the notifications by window alert. 
    angular.service('notify', function(win) {
      var msgs = [];
      return function(msg) {
        msgs.push(msg);
        if (msgs.length == 3) {
          win.alert(msgs.join("\n"));
          msgs = [];
        }
      };
    }, {$inject: ['$window']});
## Related Topics * {@link dev_guide.services.understanding_services Understanding Angular Services} * {@link dev_guide.services.registering_services Registering Angular Services} * {@link dev_guide.services.managing_dependencies Managing Service Dependencies} * {@link dev_guide.services.injecting_controllers Injecting Services Into Controllers } * {@link dev_guide.services.testing_services Testing Angular Services} ## Related API * {@link api/angular.service Angular Service API} >
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