Xamarin.Android: starting a new intent - xamarin.android

Question

I was targeting android 4.4 and was starting a service like this
start.Click += delegate {
StartService(new Intent("com.xamarin.LocationService"));
start.Enabled = false;
stop.Enabled = true;
};
and it all worked fine. Now I am targeting 6.0 and find from this thread that this isn't secure, and I should do this:
Intent serviceIntent = new Intent(context,MyService.class);
context.startService(serviceIntent);
but I cannot work out what the arguments for 'new Intent()' should be. The class name is 'LocationActivity' but if I do this
serviceIntent = new Intent(this, typeof(LocationActivity));
context.startService(serviceIntent);
it compiles OK but the service doesn't actually start.
The marked answer in that thread also suggests this
Intent bi = new Intent("com.android.vending.billing.InAppBillingService.BIND");
bi.setPackage("com.android.vending");
but if I try that I find that 'Intent does not contain a definition for setPackage'.
So, can someone help me with a solution here? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you want to start an activity you need to use StartActivity and not StartService
Then use this but change from StartService to StartActivity.
From
serviceIntent = new Intent(this, typeof(LocationActivity));
context.startService(serviceIntent);
To
serviceIntent = new Intent(this, typeof(LocationActivity));
context.StartActivity(serviceIntent);