How do I bind a service from a fragment

Question

I'm attempting to bind a service from a fragment the same way I have done succesfully in an activity, but when I try to call a method on the service I get a NullPointerException - Obviously because the service is null. Now is there some problem with binding to the service in onStart or am I simply doing it wrong?

@Override
public void onStart() {
    super.onStart();

    Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity(), LiteTrickService.class);
    getActivity().registerReceiver(receiver, new IntentFilter(LiteTrickService.BROADCAST_ACTION));
    getActivity().registerReceiver(receiver, new IntentFilter(LiteTrickService.BROADCAST_FAIL));
    getActivity().bindService(intent, mConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);
}

@Override
public void onStop() {
    super.onStop();
    getActivity().unbindService(mConnection);
    getActivity().unregisterReceiver(receiver);
    mBound = false;
}

edit: Sorry. That's my mistake for not giving this question enough thought. mConnection is a ServiceConnection and looks like this :

private ServiceConnection mConnection = new ServiceConnection() 
{

    @Override
    public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName className,
            IBinder service) {
        // We've bound to LocalService, cast the IBinder and get LocalService instance
        LocalBinder binder = (LocalBinder) service;
        mService = binder.getService();
        mBound = true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName arg0) {
        mBound = false;
    }
};

Stacktrace :

01-03 15:21:22.355: E/AndroidRuntime(12360): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
01-03 15:21:22.355: E/AndroidRuntime(12360): java.lang.NullPointerException
01-03 15:21:22.355: E/AndroidRuntime(12360):    at lite.hattrick.players.PlayerRankingFragment.onOptionsItemSelected(PlayerRankingFragment.java:205)

And this is would be the exact place where the exception is thrown : case POPULATE_ID:

        if (hasData) {
            return false;
        }
        if(!mBound)
            getActivity().bindService(new Intent(getActivity().getApplicationContext(), LiteTrickService.class), mConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);
        mService.refreshPlayers(); // Null Pointer Exception as mService is null
        pBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        return true;

Answer 1

I solved the problem. Turns out I had forgotten to provide service declaration in my manifest with its correct package name.

by changing

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

to

<service android:name="lite.hattrick.services.LiteTrickService" />

I solved the problem and the service is now connecting as expected.