I'm starting an IntentService from MainActivity:onCreate and I noticed this crash from the crash reporting only on Android Oreo above:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not allowed to start service Intent { cmp=com.company.mobile/com.company.mobile.gcm.RegistrationIntentService }: app is in background uid UidRecord{c96fbae u0a184 TPSL idle procs:1 seq(0,0,0)}
at android.app.ContextImpl.startServiceCommon()(ContextImpl.java:1577)
at android.app.ContextImpl.startService()(ContextImpl.java:1532)
at android.content.ContextWrapper.startService()(ContextWrapper.java:664)
at cs.a()(FirebaseUtility.java:42)
at com.company.mobile.MainActivity.onCreate()(MainActivity.java:81)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate()(Activity.java:7136)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate()(Activity.java:7127)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate()(Instrumentation.java:1271)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity()(ActivityThread.java:2893)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity()(ActivityThread.java:3048)
at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute()(LaunchActivityItem.java:78)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks()(TransactionExecutor.java:108)
at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute()(TransactionExecutor.java:68)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage()(ActivityThread.java:1808)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage()(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loop()(Looper.java:193)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main()(ActivityThread.java:6669)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke()(Method.java:-2)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run()(RuntimeInit.java:493)
at …
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