onServiceConnected never called after bindService method

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I’ve just experienced another version of this problem, with the same symptom of onServiceConnected(...) not being called. The cause was different in my case.

You must make sure to have a service declaration in your AndroidManifest.xml within the application tag – this was the root of the problem for me.

<application android:name=".YourAppTitle" android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
    <activity android:name=".Main" android:label="@string/app_name">
    </activity>
    <service android:name="YourService" />
</application>

There’s an extra complication if you’re using a separate Android library within Eclipse – adding this Service tag only seems to fix the issue if the referenced service is in the same package as the manifest; i.e. if your app is in package a.b.c and this is where AndroidManifest.xml resides, then ‘YourService’ must also be in package a.b.c. (manually copied from another library, if necessary) or else the <service..> tag may/will be ignored and onServiceConnected(...) still won’t be called.

This was the case for my project even though I used a suitable import statement for the Service in my code. Eclipse showed no error, so the import was correctly identifying the class from another library in the Eclipse workspace.

HTH

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