Local Notifications on Android 8.0 Oreo

Android 8.0 has some changes to their notifications infrastructure [0], and is now causing crashes in the plugin I'm using (Stan's assets [1]). That asset is really bad and I've been hoping to migrate away from it for awhile now, but can't seem to find anything else to properly handle notifications either.

Does anyone know of any notifications plugins that work properly on Android 8.0 Oreo? The other one I often see is Agasper's project on GitHub [2], but that only claims compatibility through Android 7.1.

For reference, here is the crash I'm seeing consistently on Oreo devices:

java.lang.RuntimeException:
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver (ActivityThread.java:3259)
at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap17 (Unknown Source)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage (ActivityThread.java:1677)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage (Handler.java:105)
at android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:164)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main (ActivityThread.java:6541)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run (Zygote.java:240)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main (ZygoteInit.java:767)

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException:
at android.app.ContextImpl.startServiceCommon (ContextImpl.java:1505)
at android.app.ContextImpl.startService (ContextImpl.java:1461)
at android.content.ContextWrapper.startService (ContextWrapper.java:644)
at android.content.ContextWrapper.startService (ContextWrapper.java:644)
at com.androidnative.features.notifications.LocalNotificationReceiver.onReceive (LocalNotificationReceiver.java:44)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver (ActivityThread.java:3252)


My native Android is experience is reasonably limited, but I am comfortable there if any Android devs have some insight into what I may need to change in the plugin.

Thanks for the help,
Joe

[0] https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/android-8.0-changes.html
[1] https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/10825
[2] https://github.com/Agasper/unity-android-notifications

 

I'm using the latest Stans plugin and having the same problems. So far, I sort of gave up on them ( contact them and they tell me that they don't have android 8.0 device to test it since their country didn't received the android 8.0 update yet ) and plan to migrate the whole framework to another one.

 

Hi @trdinich,

we have the same problem and we've written on Android Native Plugin's thread:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/released-android-native-plugin.201468/page-39

Maybe you can write in that thread and notify this bug to Stans Assets developers.

 

I have been in contact with them about the issue and got the same response that KrcKung got.

To be honest... I've come to the conclusion that their plugins just aren't viable for use in the real world if you're trying to build an app that will work across all devices and versions. I've had to personally fix a few bugs already in both their Android and iOS plugins and their stuff has generally been a nightmare. I'm going to move on to a different solution for native plugins unfortunately.

If anyone knows of good plugins for native notifications that offer the ability to get the notification callback data when clicked, I'm all ears! In the meantime, I'm going to use built in Unity stuff for iOS and Agasper's plugin for Android.

 

Our plugin(Cross Platform Native Plugins) is ready to hit the asset store in couple of days with Oreo update. (This update includes notification fixes)

Will update here as soon as its approved by asset store.

Edit : It was pushed to asset store last month

Thanks,
VB Team

 

Hi!

As trdinich has said in his first comment, a few days ago I decided to fork the project of Agasper's project and I fixed the original source plugin to allow use the local notifications in Android 8 Oreo.

https://github.com/samuelfa/unity-android-notifications

I'm using the plugin in our game with the future version and works correctly in every version of Android.

In the link you can find the plugin compress with aar extension (is a zip file) with our custom icon but you can clone the project and change it. On another hand, you can compile the plugin again using gradle (inside the plugin source you can find a bat file to use it with the command pluginCreate.

 

We have the exact same problem. Currently waiting on a response from Stans.
We haven't seen any actual crashes yet on our Oreo devices (and our users haven't really reported problems that seem related), but this error is everywhere in the Google Play Console Vitals section, and am reasonably worried about it.

 

Do you know if your Oreo users are actually getting notifications? My understanding of the problem is that the crash is happening when they're being scheduled, and thus they never get scheduled with the OS properly and don't actually fire.

 

We're not even really using local notifications, that's the thing. We're using Stans for a dialogue popup asking the user to rate the game, and for Google Play integration (achievements, cloud save, login), but that's it.

Right now we're not sure what's causing the error at all.

 

Here is temporary solution, it work on our app, no crash from Local Notification anymore.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/released-android-native-plugin.201468/page-39#post-3237825