egads! that was it (well, kinda) I had it in there, but I had it as remote -- android:process=":remote"
thanks! On Sep 9, 12:41 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you publish the service in your manifest? > > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:37 AM, sdphil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have the following base activity. > > > public class BaseActivity extends Activity > > ... > > ... > > ... onCreate(...) { > > this.bindService(new Intent(BaseActivity.this, > > LocalService.class), serviceConn, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE); > > } > > ... > > private ServiceConnection serviceConn = new ServiceConnection() { > > �...@override > > public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName name, IBinder > > service) > > { > > LocalService.LocalBinder binder = > > (LocalService.LocalBinder) > > service; > > service = binder.getService(); > > } > > ... > > }; > > > A derived activity fails on the call to cast a binder -- > > > LocalService.LocalBinder binder = (LocalService.LocalBinder) service; > > > fails with this on the call stack -- > > > InvocationTargetException.<init>(Throwable) line: 56 > > ActivityThread.main(String[]) line: 3948 > > > what am I doing wrong? > > > tia. > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

