android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException on service start on android

Question

after trying my brand new service on android i get this:

i guess is something related to the manifest file and permissions, the service is started after the last act

Answer 1

As per the documentation, even though you use a Service to perform long running operations, the Service itself runs on the application's main thread. So you have to spawn a new thread to perform potentially long running tasks like network access.

Android's StrictMode actually checks for network operations performed on the main thread and throws a NetworkOnMainThreadException.