On further investigation. It works fine, unless a TabActivity/TabHost launches the Activity that calls bindService.
Reading this thread from 2008: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/978fc19ae5976efa/0b830abad32d572a >> * you can't bind to a service, onServiceConnected will never be >> called. > >This is a bug that should be fixed in the future. Not documented because we >didn't realize it was broken. :) Seems like an old, ignored bug in TabActivity. Sigh! On Nov 20, 6:53 pm, Henrik Lindqvist <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a local Service to which multiple activites needs to bind. In > the first launched Activity, bindService returns true and > onServiceConnected is called. But in any additionally launched > activites bindService returns false, and I can't get a reference to my > Service. > > How can multiple activities simultaneously be connected to a local > Service? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
