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

I hope I can help someone with this info as well: I moved my service class into another package and I fixed the references. The project was perfectly fine, BUT the service class could not be found by the activity.

By watching the log in logcat I noticed the warning about the issue: the activity could not find the service class, but the funny thing was that the package was incorrect, it contained a "/" char. The compiler was looking for

com.something./service.MyService

instead of

com.something.service.MyService

I moved the service class out from the package and back in and everything worked just fine.