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Crash when starting services in background

See original GitHub issue

Using a Pixel on Oreo (release not beta), I put my app in the background. A minute or two later, it crashed. LeakCanary 1.5.1

09-07 19:18:24.049 31787-31804/com.myapp:leakcanary E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: IntentService[HeapAnalyzerService]
Process: com.myapp:leakcanary, PID: 31787
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not allowed to start service Intent { cmp=com.myapp/com.squareup.leakcanary.DisplayLeakService (has extras) }: app is in background uid UidRecord{74385af u0a385 CEM  bg:+3m4s764ms idle procs:2 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 com.squareup.leakcanary.AbstractAnalysisResultService.sendResultToListener(AbstractAnalysisResultService.java:38)
    at com.squareup.leakcanary.internal.HeapAnalyzerService.onHandleIntent(HeapAnalyzerService.java:59)
    at android.app.IntentService$ServiceHandler.handleMessage(IntentService.java:68)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
    at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:65)

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:29 (21 by maintainers)

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SUPERCILEXcommented, Sep 19, 2017

Yeah, that’s because you can’t start services in the background anymore on API 26.

@JakeWharton @jrodbx You’ll have to use ContextCompat.startForegroundService(...) and post a notification while processing the leak. I think that’s actually better UX anyway because I’m always like “Is LeakCanary doing anything? Why is it taking so long?” If you guys could have a progress bar showing the analysis progress, that would be really cool.

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veonuacommented, Jun 5, 2018

there is pull a request since December, could you please just merge it.