I am trying to send an Intent from the onCreate in an Activity to start an IntentService. However the IntentService's onHandleIntent is never being received. I have tried changing around the Manifest with Intent-filters but nothing seems to be working. No exceptions are being thrown, but the IntentService is simply not called.
Here is the onCreate
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
db = new TwitterDB(this);
String[] columns = new String[1];
columns[0] = TwitterDB.TEXT;
tAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, 0, null, columns, null, 0);
tweets = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.listtwitter);
tweets.setAdapter(tAdapter);
Intent intent = new Intent(this, SyncService.class);
intent.putExtra("action", SyncService.TWITTER_SYNC);
this.startService(intent);
}
Here is the creator and onHandleIntent of the IntentService class, I know it is not being called because logcat never shows "Retrieved intent". The constructor is not called either (There was a log call in there, but I removed it.
public SyncService(){
super("SyncService");
twitterURI = Uri.parse(TWITTER_URI);
Log.i("SyncService", "Constructed");
}
@Override
public void onHandleIntent(Intent i){
int action = i.getIntExtra("action", -1);
Log.i("SyncService", "Retrieved intent");
switch (action){
case TWITTER_SYNC:
try{
url = new URL(twitterString);
conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
syncTwitterDB();
conn.disconnect();
}catch(MalformedURLException e){
Log.w("SyncService", "Twitter URL is no longer valid.");
e.printStackTrace();
}catch(IOException e){
Log.w("SyncService", "Twitter connection could not be established.");
e.printStackTrace();
}
break;
default:;
// invalid request
}
}
And here is the Manifest.xml
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.twitter"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="15" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
<application android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
<activity
android:name=".TwitterTwoActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
<service android:name="SyncService"/>
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>
Move your service declaration outside of the scope of the TwitterTwoActivity in the XML file, as I have done here:
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.twitter"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="15" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
<application android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
<activity
android:name=".TwitterTwoActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<service android:name="SyncService"/>
</application>
</manifest>