Android 13 Crash : Beacon service crash about android-beacon-library

[pravingaikwad07]

Crash report:

Fatal Exception: android.app.RemoteServiceException$ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground(): ServiceRecord{6170cc7 u0 com.wrkspot.employee.prod/org.altbeacon.beacon.service.BeaconService} at android.app.ActivityThread.generateForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException(ActivityThread.java:2245) at android.app.ActivityThread.throwRemoteServiceException(ActivityThread.java:2216) at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mthrowRemoteServiceException() at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2508) 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:8762) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java) at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:604) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1067)

[davidgyoung]

@pravingaikwad07 please read the discussion in #1141 which you referenced above as well as the pull request that implemented an improvement #1024 awhile back. This improvement is already in the latest version of the library.

I believe there is no way to 100% eliminate these crashes due to the design of Android. I have already done what I think is possible to make these crashes as rare as possible, but again, I believe it is impossible to eliminate them. I encourage you to offer additional ideas to reduce the frequency of these crashes if you have them. Please comment on the existing issue #1141, and we can re-open if there are any actionable ideas.

[pravingaikwad07]

@davidgyoung So, does it mean that the improvements are available in 'org.altbeacon:android-beacon-library:2.19.6 ?

[davidgyoung]

Yes

[pravingaikwad07]

Thanks for the quick reply. I appreciate it.

I will update on this thread if I find any solution to reduce the frequency of this issue. Also, I will try to post the frequency in decrease of crashes after upgrading 2.19.5 to 2.19.6 as you suggested.

[davidgyoung]

The improvement was introduced in 2.19, so you will only see a difference if comparing 2.18.x with 2.19.x

[pravingaikwad07]

Ok. So I am currently using 2.19.5 and if I upgrade it to 2.19.6, then do you think that there will be improvements in overall frequency of this crash?

[pravingaikwad07]

Also, wanted to check that is there any plan to release the version 2.20 stable version? I can see that it's in beta version as of now.