title: Can I start a service without activity or receiver?
body: <p>I want to start a service in an <code>APK</code>.  </p>
  
  <p>I tried to use as following:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name"&gt;  
          &lt;service android:name =".TestServcie"&gt;  
              &lt;intent-filter&gt;  
                  &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;  
                  &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;  
              &lt;/intent-filter&gt;  
          &lt;/service&gt;  
      &lt;/application&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas?<br>
  Thanks</p>