Why is this simple service not starting?

Question

I have a service with a handler that has to write \"Hello\" in the logcat every 5 seconds. But it doesn\'t write nothing on the logcat... It\'s like the service is not execu

Answer 1

There are also circumstances where you need to put the "enabled" attribute to "true" when defining it in the manifest, like so:

See this link for more info: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/service-element.html