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Saariko
Saariko

Reputation: 1703

Service not getting started

I am writing my first service. My activity works well, but when I call my service, it doesn't.

It looks like it's onCreate() is not getting called.

My service code:

public class NeglectedService extends Service {
    public static final String MY_SERVICE = "android.intent.action.MAIN";
    public void onCreate() {
        Toast.makeText(this, "Service onCreate...", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
}

I am not even getting the Toast message.

Here is my activity

startService(new Intent(NeglectedService.MY_SERVICE));

My manifest

action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2143

Answers (3)

ianonavy
ianonavy

Reputation: 344

Did you enter something like

<service android:name=".subpackagename.ServiceName"/>

into your Android Manifest xml file?

Upvotes: 8

kabuko
kabuko

Reputation: 36302

Seeing as the NeglectedService.MY_SERVICE is just a string, in your startService call you're essentially calling:

startService(new Intent("android.intent.action.MAIN"));

Clearly that doesn't have any reference to your particular service and isn't what you want. Instead, either register the service for particular intent filters and include those in your intent, or call it by class:

startService(new Intent(this, NeglectedService.class));

Upvotes: 4

devunwired
devunwired

Reputation: 63303

Call your Service using an Explicit intent, instead of using an implicit action string, which should be more unique anyway. In other words, use this in your Activity code:

startService( new Intent(this, NeglectedService.class) );

Hope that helps!

Upvotes: 1

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