Flutter Background Service Crashes detected in Production in Android

[arteevraina]

Stack trace -

Exception java.lang.RuntimeException:
  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver (ActivityThread.java:4890)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleReceiver (ActivityThread.java)
  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage (ActivityThread.java:2417)
  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage (Handler.java:106)
  at android.os.Looper.loopOnce (Looper.java:226)
  at android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:313)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.main (ActivityThread.java:8741)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java)
  at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run (RuntimeInit.java:571)
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main (ZygoteInit.java:1067)
Caused by android.app.BackgroundServiceStartNotAllowedException:
  at android.app.ContextImpl.startServiceCommon (ContextImpl.java:1981)
  at android.app.ContextImpl.startService (ContextImpl.java:1927)
  at android.content.ContextWrapper.startService (ContextWrapper.java:834)
  at android.content.ContextWrapper.startService (ContextWrapper.java:834)
  at id.flutter.flutter_background_service.WatchdogReceiver.onReceive (WatchdogReceiver.java)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver (ActivityThread.java:4881)

Device

Samsung a51 Android 13

[arteevraina]

st there a way or any configuration that should fix it ? I found some similar issues in this repo but they had no answers and seemed to be closed. So, I thought to reopen it.

[knight0zh]

I have the same problem in samsung device

[arteevraina]

I have the same problem in samsung device

It's better to write your own background service using isolates that will work much better.

[FluffyDiscord]

Same here, but also in dev mode in android 14 emulator.

I have the same problem in samsung device

It's better to write your own background service using isolates that will work much better.

This isn't really helpful.