Why doesn't my Service work in Android? (I just want to log something ever 5 seconds)

Question

I created a new class called HelloService. I added this to the Android manifest.xml.

public class HelloService extends Service {
    private Timer timer = new Timer();
    private long INTERVAL = 5000;

    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        startservice();

    }

    private void startservice() {
        timer.scheduleAtFixedRate( new TimerTask() {
            public void run() {
                Log.d("servy", "This proves that my service works.");
            }
        }, 0, INTERVAL);
    ; }

    private void stopservice() {
        if (timer != null){
            timer.cancel();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent arg0) {
        return null;
    }
}

My other activity calls it like this:

    Intent helloservice = new Intent(this, HelloService.class);
    startService(helloservice);

For some reason, I put a breakpoint in my new HelloService...but it's not even hitting. It's not logging either.

Edit: "Unable to start service Intent { cmp = com.examples.hello/.HelloService }: not found"

What does that mean? ... I created HelloService.java in the same place as everything else...

Answer 1

Solved. I fixed my manifest file. Thanks Nikola Smiljanic

<service android:name=".HelloService"/>

to:

   <service android:name="HelloService"></service>