Question

I am trying out Intent services. This is what I use to call it

    Button updateLocation = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnUpdateLocation);
        updateLocation.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View arg0) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                Intent updateLocIntent=new Intent(ImTracking.this,UpdateLocation.class);
                startService(updateLocIntent);}});

However in my UpdateLocation class, it never hits any of my break points.

    public class UpdateLocation extends IntentService{

    public UpdateLocation() {
        super("UpdateLocation");
    }


    @Override
    protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {

                SharedPreferences prefs = getSharedPreferences("Settings", 0);
                final String id = prefs.getString("ID", "");
                DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
                HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost(
                        "http://iphone-radar.com/gps/gps_locations");

                JSONObject holder = new JSONObject();
...

What is going on?

Thanks

PS. I am using this because I want to call it with an alarm manager. However on button click I would like to show a progress dialog, where would I place the progress dialog for an intent service? (I’ve only had experience working with async tasks so far)

Answer 1

Did you declare your service in AndroidManifest.xml? It won’t be invoked unless it’s declared like this:

<manifest ... >
  ...
  <application ... >
      <service android:name=".ExampleService" />
      ...
  </application>
</manifest>