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

If using Xamarin Droid the easiest way to do this is to mark the class as a service like this:

[Service]
public class LongRunningTaskService : Service
{
    ...
}

Then there's no need to put it in the AndroidManifest.xml.