Google Glass Live Card not inserting

Question

Glass GDK here. Trying to insert a livecard using remote views from service. I'm launching service via voice invocation. The voice command works, however it appears my service is not starting(no entries in log). Service is in android manifest. Below is code:

public class PatientLiveCardService extends Service {

private static final String LIVE_CARD_ID = "timer";


@Override
public void onCreate() {
    Log.warn("oncreate");
    super.onCreate();
}

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

@Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
    publishCard(this);

    return START_STICKY;
}

@Override
public void onDestroy() {
    unpublishCard(this);
    super.onDestroy();
}



private void publishCard(Context context) {
    Log.info("inserting live card");
    if (mLiveCard == null) {
        String cardId = "my_card";
        TimelineManager tm = TimelineManager.from(context);
        mLiveCard = tm.getLiveCard(cardId);

        mLiveCard.setViews(new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(),
                R.layout.activity_vitals));
        Intent intent = new Intent(context, MyActivity.class);
        mLiveCard.setAction(PendingIntent
                .getActivity(context, 0, intent, 0));
        mLiveCard.publish();
    } else {
        // Card is already published.
        return;
    }
}

private void unpublishCard(Context context) {
    if (mLiveCard != null) {
        mLiveCard.unpublish();
        mLiveCard = null;
    }
}

}

Here is AndroidManifest.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="15"
    android:targetSdkVersion="15" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" >
</uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" >
</uses-permission>

<application
    android:name="com.myApp"
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
      <activity
        android:name="com.myApp.MyActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:screenOrientation="landscape" >
    </activity>

    <service android:name="com.myApp.services.MyService" 
         android:enabled="true"
         android:exported="true">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="com.google.android.glass.action.VOICE_TRIGGER" />
        </intent-filter>

        <meta-data
            android:name="com.google.android.glass.VoiceTrigger"
            android:resource="@xml/voice_trigger_get_patient" />
    </service>

</application>

Answer 1

This is a bug with XE11: the service is not started after the speech recognizer is complete.

As a workaround, you can have your voice trigger start an Activity which:

1. Processes the recognized speech in onResume.
2. Once the speech is processed, starts your Service with startService.
3. Calls finish to jump to the published LiveCard.