How to instantiate android service with a constructor?

Question

I have a service with an following constructor:

public ShimmerService(Context context, Handler handler) {
    mHandler = handler;
}

I want

Answer 1

You should not construct services (or activities, or broadcast receivers) explicitly. The Android system does that internally. The proper way to construct a service is via startService() with an intent; feel free to add extra parameters to that intent.

EDIT: or bindService(). Then you have options - either build a custom interface with AIDL, or use raw transact().