Plugin not initialized when app in background

[pburgio]

When app is not active, you get a GeofenceNotInitializedException exception (see stack below all)

This is because at GeofenbceBootReceiver::OnReceive (line 27) there is

        var geofenceInstance= CrossGeofence.Current;

that cause the getter to throw the exception.I currently put a try-catch, is there a better workaround? In my opinion, that line of code is unnecessary (please, correct me if I'm wrong).

Ciao! Paolo

--------- beginning of crash 07-13 13:57:43.748 10906 10906 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main 07-13 13:57:43.748 10906 10906 E AndroidRuntime: Process: XXXXXXX, PID: 10906 07-13 13:57:43.748 10906 10906 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException 07-13 13:57:43.748 10906 10906 E AndroidRuntime: at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1410) 07-13 13:57:43.748 10906 10906 E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException 07-13 13:57:43.748 10906 10906 E AndroidRuntime: at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 07-13 13:57:43.748 10906 10906 E AndroidRuntime: at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1520) 07-13 13:57:43.748 10906 10906 E AndroidRuntime: ... 1 more 07-13 13:57:43.748 10906 10906 E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: android.runtime.JavaProxyThrowable: Geofence.Plugin.Abstractions.GeofenceNotInitializedException: CrossGeofence - Plugin is not initialized. Should initialize before use with CrossGeofence Initialize method. Example: CrossGeofence.Initialize() 07-13 13:57:43.748 10906 10906 E AndroidRuntime: at Geofence.Plugin.CrossGeofence.get_Current () [0x00013] in <0f602bb09ad94d9996a5adee15e35701>:0 07-13 13:57:43.748 10906 10906 E AndroidRuntime: at Geofence.Plugin.GeofenceBootReceiver.OnReceive (Android.Content.Context context, Android.Content.Intent intent) [0x0001b] in <0f602bb09ad94d9996a5adee15e35701>:0 07-13 13:57:43.748 10906 10906 E AndroidRuntime: at Android.Content.BroadcastReceiver.n_OnReceive_Landroid_content_Context_Landroid_contentIntent (System.IntPtr jnienv, System.IntPtr native__this, System.IntPtr native_context, System.IntPtr

[pburgio]

PS the issue disappears e.g., in my huawei + nougat device

[pmdauv]

Hi Paolo, Will you tell us how you solved the issue: Android project does not compile when using Geofence.Plugin with latest GooglePlayServices. I have the same issue unfortunately no solution to solve it.

Thank you for help, Placide.

[pburgio]

Hello,

I simply surrounded with a try-catch this line of code -- GeofenbceBootReceiver::OnReceive (line 27): var geofenceInstance= CrossGeofence.Current;

As said, in my huawai p10 w/nougtat, I don't experience the issue anymore..even without try-catch-ing that line

Ciao! Paolo

[Westat-Transportation]

We addressed this by adding waits to the geofence handlers that only go through after the geofence plugin is initialized, we track initialization in our geofence handling class using a boolean that is set once OnAppInitialized is called.

[Westat-Transportation]

We submitted a couple pull requests that address this and the authors of this package released a new plugin that incorporate them. Try https://www.nuget.org/packages/Plugin.Geofence/, it is almost a complete drop in replacement with the exception of a namespace change and can be used in projects targeting API 27.