ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException

[XilinJia]

Checklist

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• I will describe the problem with as much detail as possible.
• If the bug only to occurs with a certain podcast, I will include the URL of that podcast.

App version

6.5.9

Where did you get the app from

Other

Android version

14

Device model

Samsung

First occurred

recently

Steps to reproduce

Play an episode in queue,
put Podcini in background or turn off screen,
when the next episode in queue starts, notification panel likely not show up,
this is when ForegroundServiceStartNotAllowedException shows in Logcat,
Podcini may keep playing, or may get stopped by the system sometime later.

This is noticed on Samsung Android 14 devices.

This relates to long-standing issues reported to media3: androidx/media#111
and to Android: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/307329994

Expected behaviour

No response

Current behaviour

No response

Logs

No response

[XilinJia]

Since Google can't resolve this issue for over 2 years, I don't expect that they be able to do it soon. So from now on the workaround is to build apk's with target SDK set to 30 (Android 11), though build and tests will be with the most recent SDK's and Android versions (for now SDK 35 and Android 14).

Please report any irregularities.

[XilinJia]

Looks like the best approach is to have an apk targeted to Android 15 and request unrestricted permission from the user.

[XilinJia]

with unrestricted activity permission, this is worked around. close for now