Fatal Android 12: Exception: startForegroundService() not allowed due to mAllowStartForeground false

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Fatal Android 12: Exception: startForegroundService() not allowed due to mAllowStartForeground false #406

Closed Lir10 closed 4 months ago

Lir10 commented 1 year ago

Now that Google Play is require apps to target api level 31 we can't use startForegroundService() from the keepAlive service as it will result in exception due to running a foreground service from the background. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70044393/fatal-android-12-exception-startforegroundservice-not-allowed-due-to-mallows

adeekshith commented 1 year ago

Thank you for reporting this @Lir10. Will plan to work on this once I get some free time. But in case you or other contributors can pick this up, that will be a lot of help. Thank you!

adeekshith commented 1 year ago

Planning to Migrate to API 33

Official migration guide (currently only lists migrating to API 31): https://developer.android.com/google/play/requirements/target-sdk
Also read: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/12/migration
Migrating to API 33 (third party blog): https://medium.com/tech-takeaways/migrating-my-app-to-android-13-f5ad0649d23d