WearableListenerService, onDataChanged() is not called

Question

I followed the tutorial to invoke a Wearable activity from phone, posted here How to send notification from handheld to wear to open Activity on wear device. However, I grab

Answer 1

For me, the culprit was this line in the service declaration:

android:permission="android.permission.BIND_NOTIFICATION_LISTENER_SERVICE"

I'm not exactly sure what about this line causes the service not to receive events, but when it was removed it started functioning properly.