Question

I am looking into displaying an activity when the service is first started so i created a new class put some code an xml but the R.id references are not beeing resolved and what can i do next ?

Answer 1

Something like this…

public class TestService extends Service {

@Override
public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) {
    super.onStart(intent, startId);
            Intent dialogIntent = new Intent(getBaseContext(), myActivity.class);
    dialogIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
    getApplication().startActivity(dialogIntent);
    }
}

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