Unable to start Service Intent

Question

I have a service class  I have exported this class to jar and I have embed the jar in my client app   When needed  I call the service class  When I try to do this  I get the following error   Unable to start service Intent  comp  com sample service com sample service serviceClass     not found   I have other class apart from the service class  which I am able to access  create object of that class  which are inside the same jar   I feel I have missed out some thing in my configuration or manifest or so   Please help me identifying the same  My code is below   public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState              super onCreate savedInstanceState           Intent intent   new Intent              intent setClassName  com sample service    com sample service serviceClass             this startService intent       when I call this line I get the message               binding other process continue  here        Client manifest xml   lt service android name  com sample service serviceClass                android exported  true  android label   string app name               android process   remote  gt      lt intent-filter gt  lt action android name  com sample service serviceClass  gt  lt  action gt      lt  intent-filter gt   lt  service gt    Thanks in advance  Vinay

User · Answer

For anyone else coming across this thread I had this issue and was pulling my hair out. I had the service declaration OUTSIDE of the '< application>' end tag DUH!

RIGHT:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  ...>
...
<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
    <activity ...>
        ...
    </activity>    

    <service android:name=".Service"/>

    <receiver android:name=".Receiver">
        <intent-filter>
            ...
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>        
</application>

<uses-permission android:name="..." />

WRONG but still compiles without errors:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  ...>
...
<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
    <activity ...>
        ...
    </activity>

</application>

    <service android:name=".Service"/>

    <receiver android:name=".Receiver">
        <intent-filter>
            ...
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>        

<uses-permission android:name="..." />

User · Answer

I ve found the same problem  I lost almost a day trying to start a service from OnClickListener method - outside the onCreate and after 1 day  I still failed     Very frustrating  I was looking at the sample example RemoteServiceController  Theirs works  but my implementation does not work   The only way that was working for me  was from inside onCreate method  None of the other variants worked and believe me I ve tried them all   Conclusion    If you put your service class in different package than the mainActivity  I ll get all kind of errors  Also the one     couldn t find path to the service  tried starting with Intent package className  and nothing   also other type of Intent starting I moved the service class in the same package of the activity Final form that works  Hopefully this helps someone by defining the listerners onClick inside the onCreate method like this   public void onCreate       some code           Button btnStartSrv     Button findViewById R id btnStartService       Button btnStopSrv     Button findViewById R id btnStopService        btnStartSrv setOnClickListener new OnClickListener             public void onClick View v                startService new Intent  RM SRV AIDL                            btnStopSrv setOnClickListener new OnClickListener             public void onClick View v                stopService new Intent  RM SRV AIDL                             end onCreate    Also very important for the Manifest file  be sure that service is child of application    lt application      gt       lt activity      gt                lt  activity gt       lt service         android name  com mainActivity MyRemoteGPSService          android label  GPSService          android process   remote  gt            lt intent-filter gt                lt action android name  RM SRV AIDL    gt           lt  intent-filter gt       lt  service gt   lt  application gt

User · Answer

First  you do not need android process   remote   so please remove it  since all it will do is take up extra RAM for no benefit   Second  since the  lt service gt  element contains an action string  use it   public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState              super onCreate savedInstanceState           Intent intent new Intent  com sample service serviceClass            this startService intent

User · Answer

In my case the 1 MB maximum cap for data transport by Intent  I ll just use Cache or Storage

User · Answer

1  check if service declaration in manifest is nested in application tag   lt application gt       lt service android name      gt   lt  application gt    2  check if your service java is in the same package or diff package as the activity   lt application gt       lt  -- service java exists in diff package -- gt       lt service android name  com package helper service    gt    lt  application gt       lt application gt       lt  -- service java exists in same package -- gt       lt service android name   service    gt    lt  application gt

User · Answer

I hope I can help someone with this info as well  I moved my service class into another package and I fixed the references  The project was perfectly fine  BUT the service class could not be found by the activity   By watching the log in logcat I noticed the warning about the issue  the activity could not find the service class  but the funny thing was that the package was incorrect  it contained a     char  The compiler was looking for     com something  service MyService   instead of     com something service MyService   I moved the service class out from the package and back in and everything worked just fine

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