Service must be explicit when opening Activity having map: Android lollipop(5.0)

Question

I have google map displayed in a FragmentActitvity which implements And to open this activity I am start an intent from another activity(let's say Activity A) on click of a button.

button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
                Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MapActivity.class);
                startActivity(intent);

        }
    });

And my MapActivity is like this:

public class MapActivity extends FragmentActivity implements GooglePlayServicesClient.ConnectionCallbacks,
    GooglePlayServicesClient.OnConnectionFailedListener {
    private GoogleMap googleMap;
    private LocationClient locationClient;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_map);
    if (googleMap == null) {
        googleMap = ((SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map)).getMap();
        googleMap.setMyLocationEnabled(true);

        // check if map is created successfully or not
        if (googleMap == null) {
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Sorry! unable to create maps", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    }

    locationClient = new LocationClient(this, this, this);
    locationClient.connect();
    mLocationRequest = LocationRequest.create();

    mLocationRequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);
    mLocationRequest.setInterval(5 * 1000);
    mLocationRequest.setSmallestDisplacement(0.1f);
    mLocationRequest.setFastestInterval(5 * 1000);
}
}

The MapActivity has other other implementation method of interfaces as well. But when I click on button to open MapActivity I get the error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Service Intent must be explicit: Intent { act=com.google.android.location.internal.GoogleLocationManagerService.START }

I searched on google and I found I need to create an explicit intent. But I am not sure how to do that in my case.

Answer 1

Try to upgrade your Android SDK Build-tools with Android SDK Manager. Choose last version of the build-tools. And then in your build.gradle

compileSdkVersion 22
buildToolsVersion "22.0.1"

The best way is to upgrade on new GoogleApiClient, your new MapActivity should be like this

public class MapActivity extends FragmentActivity implements GoogleApiClient.ConnectionCallbacks,
        GoogleApiClient.OnConnectionFailedListener, com.google.android.gms.location.LocationListener {
    private GoogleMap googleMap;

    private GoogleApiClient mGoogleApiClient;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_map);
        if (googleMap == null) {
            googleMap = ((SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.map)).getMap();
            googleMap.setMyLocationEnabled(true);

            // check if map is created successfully or not
            if (googleMap == null) {
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Sorry! unable to create maps", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        }

        mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this)
                .addApi(LocationServices.API)
                .addConnectionCallbacks(this)
                .addOnConnectionFailedListener(this)
                .build();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStart() {
        super.onStart();
        mGoogleApiClient.connect();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStop() {
        super.onStop();
        mGoogleApiClient.disconnect();
    }

    @Override
    public void onConnected(Bundle bundle) {
        LocationRequest locationRequest = LocationRequest.create();
        locationRequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);
        locationRequest.setInterval(5 * 1000);
        locationRequest.setSmallestDisplacement(0.1f);
        locationRequest.setFastestInterval(5 * 1000);

        LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.requestLocationUpdates(mGoogleApiClient, locationRequest, this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onConnectionSuspended(int i) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onConnectionFailed(ConnectionResult connectionResult) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
        // handle new location
    }
}

And you should use last play-services. In your build.gradle

dependencies {

    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:7.5.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:7.5.0'
}