Question Error - "Not allowed to bind service intent" when trying to run Android license check service.

Hi,

I'm running into a serious issue in my game. I need to integrate a google license check service and when I do, at runtime, I get the following error in locat:

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2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity AndroidJavaException: java.lang.SecurityException: Not allowed to bind to service Intent { act=com.android.vending.licensing.ILicensingService pkg=com.android.vending }
2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity java.lang.SecurityException: Not allowed to bind to service Intent { act=com.android.vending.licensing.ILicensingService pkg=com.android.vending }
2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity at android.app.ContextImpl.bindServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:1918)
2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity at android.app.ContextImpl.bindService(ContextImpl.java:1829)
2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity at android.content.ContextWrapper.bindService(ContextWrapper.java:774)
2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity at com.google.licensingservicehelper.LicensingServiceHelper.checkLicense(LicensingServiceHelper.java:87)
2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity at com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer.nativeRender(Native Method)
2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity at com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer.access$300(Unknown Source:0)
2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity at com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer$e$1.handleMessage(Unknown Source:95)
2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:246)
2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity at com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer$e.run(Unknown Source:20)
2021/07/16 10:47:11.017 11269 22217 Error Unity at UnityEngine.AndroidJNISafe.Check

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has anyone run into this kind of error message before? I did not get it with the same code / library in Unity 2018. Is there something I'm supposed to change in build settings, proguard file or manifest to get the service intent thing working?

 

can you check if addding
<uses-permission android:name="com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE" />

to your manifest (below the </application> line is where I did mine) will help?

looks like it did for me.