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Reputation: 31

Job Scheduler cant find job/service?

My app needs to do something periodically so I'm trying the Job Scheduler introduced in Android API 21. At this moment I'm just gettingto know it and try the basics. Unfortunately I get an error:

Java.lang.illegalArgumentException: No such service ComponentInfo{The whole path here to the service class name TestJobService}

I understand this has been solved for some by adding permission to Manifest, but not me. What else can cause this?

This is my code part where I guess it goes wrong:

Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Exec reaches here...",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
JobInfo.Builder builder = new JobInfo.Builder(1, new ComponentName(getPackageName(),TestJobService.class.getName()));
    //runs job service after every 10 seconds
    builder.setPeriodic(10000);
    jobScheduler.schedule(builder.build());

I have this in my Manifest:

<service
    android:name=".TestJobService"
    android:permission="android.permission.BIND_JOB_SERVICE"
    android:exported="true" >
</service>

One thing that confuses me is that I cant manually give job-permission to the app manually in the device settings (I do that to get permission to storage). If the app needs permission for schedualing jobs, shouldn't I have to give permission in the settings?

I really hope someone has the solution for this.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2018

Answers (2)

Tiferet Cohen
Tiferet Cohen

Reputation: 272

add <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" /> to the user permissions in the manifest. it did it for me.

Upvotes: 0

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Reputation: 31

Make sure you put your service element inside application element and nowhere else. When I did it worked fine.

Upvotes: 2

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