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Lasitha Lankajeewa
Lasitha Lankajeewa

Reputation: 93

Is printing not allowing within a service in android?

I wrote a service in android app to read a pdf file and send to the print using print manager. but it not allowing to print, and it says " IllegalStateException : Can print only from an activity".IS this a problem of newer android versions?

This is the cade

  PrintManager printManager = (PrintManager) this.getSystemService(Context.PRINT_SERVICE);
  PrintDocumentAdapter printAdapter = new PdfDocumentAdapter(pathPdfRead);
  String jobName = getString(R.string.app_name) + newDoc;
  printManager.print(jobName, printAdapter, new PrintAttributes.Builder().build());

I'm expecting some answer. Is this possible in Android 11 or higher versions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 272

Answers (1)

Enowneb
Enowneb

Reputation: 1037

The exception is self-explanatory:

IllegalStateException : Can print only from an activity

So if you do such implementation in a Service, the this in this line is not an Activity Context:

PrintManager printManager = (PrintManager)this.getSystemService(Context.PRINT_SERVICE);

You must have an Activity Context in order to make it work.

Upvotes: 1

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