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codinguser
codinguser

Reputation: 5572

Android Context.bindService always returns false and ServiceConnection object is never triggered

I have followed the Local Service example provided by Google, but my Context::bindService(...) always returns false and there is ServiceConnection::onServiceConnected is also never called.

I understand that Context::bindService() returns immediately, but my ServiceConnection object is never triggered.

I don't know if these apply

  1. My activity is running inside a tabHost and I was wondering if that can affect service binding in any way.
  2. The Service itself may have a problem, but I can call start service to the same service with the same Intent and it works as expected.

Does anyone have experience with this? Please help me out.

Thanks, P.S. I am targeting Android 1.6

Upvotes: 35

Views: 15598

Answers (2)

Martijn Courteaux
Martijn Courteaux

Reputation: 68847

I now this is old, but I had a slightly different problem. I refactored the package of my project. So the name changed of the files, but Eclipse did not update the manifest file. So, I manually fixed the manifest file and changed the name of the package there as well.

Upvotes: 3

codinguser
codinguser

Reputation: 5572

So I finally figured it out. It turns out that TabSpec cannot bind to activities

Using getApplicationContext().bindService instead of just bindService on your activity solves the problem as it is using the higher level application context.

Hope this helps someone!

Upvotes: 60

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