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

Yet another cause to the original question might be that the service isn't already running and you are passing 0 as flag to bindService. Like so:

bindService(intent, serviceConnection, 0);

When what you are looking for would be:

bindService(intent, serviceConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);