Hi, does anybody know how to trigger a <https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Backgrou...

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[Jan]

Hi, does anybody know how to trigger a https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/BackgroundServiceStartNotAllowedException? More in thread:

[Kilian]

interesting one i just got this issue coming up from my app.
https://github.com/Nailik/rhasspy_mobile/issues/503

[Jan]

Unfortunately I am not able to reproduce this exception. Does somebody know how to do it?

[Jan]

@Kilian Do you start your service too early so that there is no activity presented to the user? Maybe thats also my issue?

[Jan]

An assumption might be that your app is still considered to be in background mode because you start your service in Application.kt and therefore it does not have an active/visible activity, see https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/background#services

[Jan]

And maybe thats also the case for my problem. Right now I always tested the other way around. Delayed the start of the service after an activity was created ...

[Kilian]

yep i think it starts in the application before the app is considered to be in foreground. But maybe it’s because i use the service context to start the foreground service.
I do Application Start -> Service Start -> Service starts itself and shows notification.
I do this because previously i had Application Start -> Start Service as Foreground -> Show notification in on create of service.
However the app has only 5 seconds to show the notification else it’s force killed by the system and sometimes the delay was too big therefore i changed it.