App is crashing after updating targetsdkversion to 34

[leadsmanager]

E/AndroidRuntime(27349): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): Process: com.leads.manager, PID: 27349
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): android.app.RemoteServiceException$ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground(): ServiceRecord{1c421a4 u0 com.leads.manager/id.flutter.flutter_background_service.BackgroundService}
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.app.ActivityThread.generateForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException(ActivityThread.java:2292)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.app.ActivityThread.throwRemoteServiceException(ActivityThread.java:2263)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mthrowRemoteServiceException(Unknown Source:0)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2561)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:257)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:368)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8839)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:572)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1049)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): Caused by: android.app.StackTrace: Last startServiceCommon() call for this service was made here
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.app.ContextImpl.startServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:1992)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.app.ContextImpl.startForegroundService(ContextImpl.java:1936)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.content.ContextWrapper.startForegroundService(ContextWrapper.java:840)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at androidx.core.content.ContextCompat$Api26Impl.startForegroundService(ContextCompat.java:1128)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at androidx.core.content.ContextCompat.startForegroundService(ContextCompat.java:700)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at id.flutter.flutter_background_service.FlutterBackgroundServicePlugin.start(FlutterBackgroundServicePlugin.java:83)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at id.flutter.flutter_background_service.FlutterBackgroundServicePlugin.onMethodCall(FlutterBackgroundServicePlugin.java:127)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at io.flutter.plugin.common.MethodChannel$IncomingMethodCallHandler.onMessage(MethodChannel.java:267)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at io.flutter.embedding.engine.dart.DartMessenger.invokeHandler(DartMessenger.java:292)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at io.flutter.embedding.engine.dart.DartMessenger.lambda$dispatchMessageToQueue$0$io-flutter-embedding-engine-dart-DartMessenger(DartMessenger.java:319)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at io.flutter.embedding.engine.dart.DartMessenger$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.run(Unknown Source:12)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:958)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime(27349): ... 6 more

[pratikcronabit]

I have one solution.

1)- Please make sure your project already use the version of gradle tools below:

in android/build.gradle classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2'
in android/build.gradle ext.kotlin_version = '1.8.10'
in android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5-all.zip

2)- Add the corresponding permission to your android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml file:

Add Permission

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_..." />

Ex.. :-, if you picked 'location', use 'android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_LOCATION' ............Read more https://developer.android.com/about/versions/14/changes/fgs-types-required

    <service
        android:name="id.flutter.flutter_background_service.BackgroundService"
        android:foregroundServiceType="WhatForegroundServiceTypeDoYouWant"
    />

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That is work for me.
Thanks.

[daviddagan]

it didnt work for me and i did all you asked, I do trying to fetch GPS from Gelocatoer plugin in foreground tho

[qafoori]

any updates to this? same here

[DriesVandb]

We are experiencing the same issue. We even commented all code in the task to exclude any issues with the code.

[AnkitSuda]

Make sure you declare permissions as specified in https://developer.android.com/develop/background-work/services/fg-service-types. Declaring correct permission fixed this issue in my app.

example: if you use foregroundServiceType="specialUse" you must declare this permission in manifest
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE" />

[zamargab]

For anyone havving this issue, follow this steps.

Add to Android Manifest.

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE" />

<service
        android:name="id.flutter.flutter_background_service.BackgroundService"
        android:foregroundServiceType="specialUse"
    />

when configuring the package, add .
` foregroundServiceTypes: [AndroidForegroundType.specialUse],`

Example below.

 await service.configure(
    androidConfiguration: AndroidConfiguration(
      // this will be executed when app is in foreground or background in separated isolate
      onStart: onStart,
      // auto start service
      autoStart: false,
      isForegroundMode: true,
      foregroundServiceTypes: [AndroidForegroundType.specialUse],
      // foregroundServiceTypes: [AndroidForegroundType.specialUse],
      notificationChannelId: 'my_foreground',
      initialNotificationTitle: 'AWESOME SERVICE',
      initialNotificationContent: 'Initializing',
      foregroundServiceNotificationId: 888,
    ),
    iosConfiguration: IosConfiguration(
      // auto start service
      autoStart: false,

      // this will be executed when app is in foreground in separated isolate
      onForeground: onStart,

      // you have to enable background fetch capability on xcode project
      onBackground: onIosBackground,
    ),
  );