Starting up a service

jimmyk · by **jimmyk** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:30 pm

Hello there, i'm quite new to Android and i've been reading a few posts about invoking services.

Now i've made a nice UI wit a few buttons and i want one of those buttons to start up a service. So i put this code into the onClick method:

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Intent intent = new Intent(<Nameofthisclass>.this, <nameofserviceclass>.class);
 
intent.setLaunchFlags(Intent.NEW_TASK_LAUNCH);
 
startService(intent, null);
 
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In the class that's being called i put a showAlert to see if it's actually being called, but it doesn't. Am i doing anything wrong, maybe i need to define the service in the AndroidManifest.xml :?:

Tnx in regard

AndreySerj · by **AndreySerj** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:27 pm

Yes, You need to describe your service in the AndroidManifest.xml:

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<service class=".<nameofserviceclass>" android:process=":remote"/> 
 
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And, IMHO, this line

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intent.setLaunchFlags(Intent.NEW_TASK_LAUNCH); 
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is unnecessary.

jimmyk · by **jimmyk** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:55 pm

Tnx for your help, it's working now

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Starting up a service

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