This is true, because the system will launch the service as needed, outside
of the environment of whatever the container class is.  All of the items in
the manifest are top-level components, owned by the application itself, not
some other class in it.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:10 PM, sdphil <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> looking at this example --
>
>
> http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/introducing-home-screen-widgets-and.html
>
> if the inner UpdateService class is not static, it cannot start the
> service.  The ActivityManager complains "Unable to start service
> Intent"...
>
> any ideas why?
>
> tia.
> >
>


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