I am now developing an android App. When I want to start a service, I face the problem: Not allowed to bind to service Intent. The service is Yotaphone back screen service.
I search for the problem, there are very little information, most of them are not the same kind of problem. I have no idea which part goes wrong.
I fellow the instructions: http://mwiki.yotaphone.com/wiki/Building_First_App.
The onStart() function in MainActivity:
@Override
protected void onStart() {
super.onStart();
Intent bsIntent = new Intent(this, MyBSActivity.class);
this.startService(bsIntent);
}
The Yotaphone back screen service:
public class MyBSActivity extends BSActivity {
@Override
protected void onBSCreate() {
super.onBSCreate();
setBSContentView(R.layout.bs_activity);
}}
The error description:
04-24 18:27:12.659 28763-28763/com.pli.yotaphone2 E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.pli.yotaphone2, PID: 28763
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start service com.pli.yotaphone2.MyBSActivity@42624840 with Intent { cmp=com.pli.yotaphone2/.MyBSActivity }: java.lang.SecurityException: Not allowed to bind to service Intent { act=yotaphone.intent.action.GET_SDK_BINDER }
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:2735)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2100(ActivityThread.java:138)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1296)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5061)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:787)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:603)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: Not allowed to bind to service Intent { act=yotaphone.intent.action.GET_SDK_BINDER }
at android.app.ContextImpl.bindServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:1596)
at android.app.ContextImpl.bindService(ContextImpl.java:1560)
at android.content.ContextWrapper.bindService(ContextWrapper.java:517)
at com.yotadevices.sdk.BSActivity.doBindService(BSActivity.java:137)
at com.yotadevices.sdk.BSActivity.onStartCommand(BSActivity.java:173)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:2718)
The androidmanifest.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<!-- Service for working with a back screen -->
<service
android:name=".MyBSActivity"
android:exported="true" />
<!-- Adding YotaPhone SDK library -->
<uses-library
android:name="com.yotadevices.yotaphone2.sdk.v2"
android:required="true" />
</application>
I ran into the exact same problem, and first thought it was that the current system apps didn't yet support the new SDK. However, I just tried to decompile an existing Yota app, and found that we need to include a permission. Something that the tutorial fails to mention.
So to fix your (our) problem, you need to include the following permission in your AndroidManifest.xml:
<uses-permission android:name="com.yotadevices.framework.permission.ACCESS_BACKSCREEN" />
Happy coding!