Service not being created (or connecting) after bindService()

Question

I have this simple service that broadcasts the current location of the user. I want to use the binding mechanism just to control the service life-cycle, but the service is just

Answer 1

When you call bindService you may get this error:

ActivityManager java.lang.ClassCastException: android.os.BinderProxy cannot be cast to com.android.server.am.ActivityRecord$Token

Check the output of logcat.

This is a bug of Android.

To solve it, use getApplicationContext().bindService(...)