App crashing on android 14

[divyaAtDelta]

I am performing background task to send users location to server after every 3 min. At the starting of the application i am asking for background location permission and while starting background service I am checking whether the permission has been given already or not?. If its given then only I am starting the background service. But, while starting permission was granted, but, now user put my application in the background and through settings app revoking the location permission. In this scenario application is crashing on android 14. But, on android 12 its working totally fine. Here I am sharing the crash report below,
Fatal Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start service com.asterinet.react.bgactions.RNBackgroundActionsTask@59c59be with Intent { cmp=com.delta.the.runner/com.asterinet.react.bgactions.RNBackgroundActionsTask (has extras) mCallingUid=10544 }: java.lang.SecurityException: Starting FGS with type location callerApp=ProcessRecord{a224dfd 27293:com.delta.the.runner/u0a544} targetSDK=34 requires permissions: all of the permissions allOf=true [android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION] any of the permissions allOf=false [android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION] and the app must be in the eligible state/exemptions to access the foreground only permission
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:5134)
at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleServiceArgs()
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2481)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:257)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:368)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8839)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:572)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1049)

Any help regarding this issue is highly appreciated.

[glrahulborah]

Facing the same issue

[Yashi1919]

Can you tell me how we can get the crash report

[glrahulborah]

@divyaAtDelta The issue is related to prerequisite permissions required to start the foreground service. In your case, you have used "location" type and as per the Android documentation it requires at least one permission. Just check runtime prerequisites for location type.

[divyaAtDelta]

Can you tell me how we can get the crash report

I have got this from firebase console, as crashlytics is integrated in my project.

[divyaAtDelta]

@divyaAtDelta The issue is related to prerequisite permissions required to start the foreground service. In your case, you have used "location" type and as per the Android documentation it requires at least one permission. Just check runtime prerequisites for location type.

what permission you were missing previously, and now by adding that permission has fixed your issue, because in my case, the mentioned permission are already there in my manifest file.

[glrahulborah]

@divyaAtDelta The issue is related to prerequisite permissions required to start the foreground service. In your case, you have used "location" type and as per the Android documentation it requires at least one permission. Just check runtime prerequisites for location type.

what permission you were missing previously, and now by adding that permission has fixed your issue, because in my case, the mentioned permission are already there in my manifest file.

Permission in manifest is required and you need to grant the location permission to the app before starting the background action.

[DiguinhoLNS]

I try one solution and works well for now

on AndroidManifest.xml, add service for the backgroun service:

<service 
    android:name="com.asterinet.react.bgactions.RNBackgroundActionsTask" 
    android:foregroundServiceType="shortService"/>

on android/build.gradlew, update to sdk 34:

buildToolsVersion = "34.0.0"
minSdkVersion = 21
compileSdkVersion = 34
targetSdkVersion = 34

[DevAsrar]

Any update still same issue!

[shoki61]

As explained in the installation section, adding the code line <service android:name="com.asterinet.react.bgactions.RNBackgroundActionsTask" android:foregroundServiceType="shortService"/> to android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml fixed the crash issue on Android 14 and above.

[Rapsssito]

Fixed by #263. Please, check with the latest version 4.1.0, as there has been an overhaul related to action types.