Application Not Responding (ANR) executing service android

Question

host.activity is my package and host.framework.ServicePromemoria is an android service.

What does this error mean?

Answer 1

This means that your service is doing a rather long operation (most ANRs are from operations greater than 5 seconds) and is doing it on the UI thread. This could be a network task, or a database task, or some other long operation.

You can fix this by running the task in a service off the main UI thread, by using a Thread or an AsyncTask.

Infact, you can directly start your service into a new thread as follows:

Thread t = new Thread(){
public void run(){
getApplicationContext().bindService(
        new Intent(getApplicationContext(), YourService.class),
        serviceConnection,
        Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE
    );
}
};
t.start();

Also, cache the value returned by bindservice, if any, if you require it for later use.

Answer 2

Although there is an accepted answer but I want do add something additional here .The reason "Application Not Responding (ANR) executing service android" is that your Service does not finished it's lifecycle call (like onCreate) during the timeout . and the default timeout for a normal service is 20s . if you need an block operate in a Servcie onCreate you need start a new Thread or you can just use the IntentService .