I have upgraded my app to support SDK 26 and now Google Analytics causes crashes when running on Android Oreo:
Fatal Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start receiver com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsReceiver: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not allowed to start service Intent { act=com.google.android.gms.analytics.ANALYTICS_DISPATCH cmp=com.example.android/com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsService }: app is in background uid UidRecord{3f302e5 u0a107 RCVR idle procs:1 seq(0,0,0)} at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver(ActivityThread.java:3259) at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap17(Unknown Source) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1677) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java) at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:767) Caused by java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not allowed to start service Intent { act=com.google.android.gms.analytics.ANALYTICS_DISPATCH cmp=com.example.android/com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsService }: app is in background uid UidRecord{3f302e5 u0a107 RCVR idle procs:1 seq(0,0,0)} at android.app.ContextImpl.startServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:1505) at android.app.ContextImpl.startService(ContextImpl.java:1461) at android.content.ContextWrapper.startService(ContextWrapper.java:644) at android.content.ContextWrapper.startService(ContextWrapper.java:644) at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzaot.onReceive(Unknown Source:68) at com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsReceiver.onReceive(Unknown Source:11) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver(ActivityThread.java:3252) at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap17(Unknown Source) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1677) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java) at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:767)
This is my relevant Manifest:
<meta-data
android:name="com.google.android.gms.analytics.globalConfigResource"
android:resource="@xml/analytics"/>
<meta-data
android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version"/>
<!-- Optionally, register AnalyticsReceiver and AnalyticsService to support background
dispatching on non-Google Play devices -->
<receiver
android:name="com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsReceiver"
android:enabled="true">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="com.google.android.gms.analytics.ANALYTICS_DISPATCH"/>
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
<service
android:name="com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsService"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="false"/>
<!-- Optionally, register CampaignTrackingReceiver and CampaignTrackingService to enable
installation campaign reporting -->
<receiver
android:name="com.google.android.gms.analytics.CampaignTrackingReceiver"
android:exported="true">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER"/>
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
<service
android:name="com.google.android.gms.analytics.CampaignTrackingService"
android:exported="true"/>
Having hundreds of Oreo devices crashing due to this in past 24 hours. Seems to be affecting only on install. I am going to try and add android:permission="android.permission.BIND_JOB_SERVICE" to the 2 analytics services and see. Will report.
I Will be happy to provide more info if needed. Thanks
I recommend upgrading to play-services version 11.4.0. Add this in your Gradle file:
compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:11.4.0
From the Play Services Revision 11.4.0, analytics section:
AnalyticsJobService
. This class provides compatibility support for Android O and is used by Analytics to upload data. No action is necessary to use this class, it’s added automatically as part of the Analytics package.getContext()
method of the AnalyticsService
class.CampaignTrackingService
class.and also you have to get permission. android:permission="android.permission.BIND_JOB_SERVICE"
See below https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/analytics/AnalyticsJobService