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

Answer 1

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!

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WRONG but still compiles without errors:

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