Android Service Never Appears To Start - Onstartcommand() Not Called

I am trying to create a service that will handle file I/O in the background. Activities that update the data will bind to the service and call the service's methods to perform the

Solution 1:

Maybe you've accidentally placed the service tag outside application tag? Then the service just fails silently. Although there should be a "Unable to start service Intent..." error in the log.

Solution 2:

Be sure to declare your service in AndroidManifest.xml

<application>
    ...
    <serviceandroid:name=".path.to.service.MyService"/></application>

Solution 3:

It seems the onCreate() method has to exit before the service can actually start. Once I removed the getSurveyManagerService() request, and once a bit of time had passed, I received the System.out messages indicating the service was starting.

Unfortunately that creates another problem: the Activity relies on the Service for its data, so I need to determine how to cause the Activity to wait for the service to start.

EDIT: My solution was to create a private subclass of my ServiceConnection in my Activity. I then overrode the onServiceConnected() method to provide the Activity with its data (populating a ListView, in this case).

Solution 4:

In my case i refactored the service class & noticed that it was not automatically refactored in manifest. So i had to manually update the fully qualified name of the service in manifest.