I’m using flutter_background_service: ^5.0.7 along with geolocator: ^11.0.0 to start a background service and track the user location.

on android 14 I’m the application crashed when its attempting to start the service

i have included the required permissions and follows the flutter_background_service: ^5.0.7 documentation but still nothing.

the exception that I’m encountering

E/AndroidRuntime(20806): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(20806): Process: com.example.procss, PID: 20806
E/AndroidRuntime(20806): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create service id.flutter.flutter_background_service.BackgroundService: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: foregroundServiceType 0x00000008 is not a subset of foregroundServiceType attribute 0x00000000 in service element of manifest file
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:5111)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleCreateService(Unknown Source:0)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2506)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:230)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:319)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8893)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:608)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1103)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: foregroundServiceType 0x00000008 is not a subset of foregroundServiceType attribute 0x00000000 in service element of manifest file
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.os.Parcel.createExceptionOrNull(Parcel.java:3073)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.os.Parcel.createException(Parcel.java:3053)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:3036)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:2978)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.app.IActivityManager$Stub$Proxy.setServiceForeground(IActivityManager.java:7214)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.app.Service.startForeground(Service.java:862)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at androidx.core.app.ServiceCompat$Api34Impl.startForeground(ServiceCompat.java:241)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at androidx.core.app.ServiceCompat.startForeground(ServiceCompat.java:172)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at id.flutter.flutter_background_service.BackgroundService.updateNotificationInfo(BackgroundService.java:175)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at id.flutter.flutter_background_service.BackgroundService.onCreate(BackgroundService.java:107)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:5098)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    ... 9 more
E/AndroidRuntime(20806): Caused by: android.os.RemoteException: Remote stack trace:
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at com.android.server.am.ActiveServices.setServiceForegroundInnerLocked(ActiveServices.java:2171)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at com.android.server.am.ActiveServices.setServiceForegroundLocked(ActiveServices.java:1785)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at com.android.server.am.ActivityManagerService.setServiceForeground(ActivityManagerService.java:15850)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.app.IActivityManager$Stub.onTransact$setServiceForeground$(IActivityManager.java:11873)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806):    at android.app.IActivityManager$Stub.onTransact(IActivityManager.java:3499)
E/AndroidRuntime(20806): 

here is my permissions and the service in the manifest file:

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

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />

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


    <service
        android:name=".flutter_background_service.BackgroundService"
        android:foregroundServiceType="location"
        />

also i have updated my android/build.gradle file :

    ext.kotlin_version = '1.8.10'
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2'
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
    }
}allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }
}
rootProject.buildDir = '../build'
subprojects {
    project.buildDir = "${rootProject.buildDir}/${project.name}"
}subprojects {
    project.evaluationDependsOn(':app')
}
tasks.register("clean", Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

gradle-wrapper.properties

distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5-all.zip

and finally main.dart

    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,
      initialNotificationTitle: 'Background Service',
      initialNotificationContent: 'Location Service Running',
                            ///specifiying the service type
        foregroundServiceType: AndroidForegroundType.location,
        foregroundServiceNotificationId: 888
    ),
    iosConfiguration: IosConfiguration(
      // auto start service
      autoStart: false,
      // this will be executed when app is in foreground in separated isolate
      onForeground: onStart,

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