onServiceConnected never called after bindService method

Question

I have a particular situation: a service started by a broadcast receiver starts an activity. I want to make it possible for this activity to communicate back to the service.

Answer 1

After hours and hours of trying to figure this out, the issue is that the examples that show the creation of the service, don't include the onBind method or they have the following sample code or it generates this for you:

public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    return null;
}

This causes the onServiceConnected method to fail or never actually get executed. The fix is VERY simple, which is the following:

public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
    return mBinder;
}

Where you could create a simple binder such as the following to return:

private final IBinder mBinder = new LocalBinder();
public class LocalBinder extends Binder {
    public ConferenceService getService() {
    return ConferenceService.this;
  }
}