I have not tried a pending service yet, but a quick workaround would be to send a pending broadcast intent to yourself (broadcast receiver), and launch the service from there.
Regardless of this workaround, it would be nice to know whether there are issues with pending service intents, or whether it should work. Peli www.openintents.org On Jul 1, 12:16 pm, Richard Schilling <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having a hard time finding a good working example of > PendingIntent.getService. > > My code isn't working. I have a service, MyService, that I want to > start using an alarm. Here's some code I have in my activity's onStart > () method: > > AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager)this.getSystemService > (Context.ALARM_SERVICE); > > Intent serviceIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), > Nomad.class); > serviceIntent.putExtra("type", "functiona"); > > PendingIntent alarmIntent = PendingIntent.getService(this, 0, > serviceIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT); > > am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, System.currentTimeMillis() + > 10000, 10000, alarmIntent); > > I also have my service declared in my manifest. The service has no > intent filters associated with it. > > My understanding is that PendingIntent.getService will cause my > service to be started. > > But, it's not. > > Help, anyone, please ..... > > Thanks. > > Richard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
