Android 5.0 (L) Service Intent must be explicit in Google analytics

Question

My code worked in <5 but in Android 5.0 I\'m running into an issue that I don\'t quite understand.

10-23 10:18:18.945: E/AndroidRuntime(8987): java.lang.I         


        

Answer 1

If you're trying to use Google's Licensing mechanism, solution that worked for me:

// explicit Intent, safe
Intent serviceIntent = new Intent(ILicensingService.class.getName());
serviceIntent.setPackage("com.android.vending");
boolean bindResult = mContext.bindService(serviceIntent, this, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);

This is located in com/google/android/vending/licensing/LicenseChecker.java. Do a search for "Base64.decode("

Edit:

Adding reference to Google Licensing java file that has to be patched:

com.google.android.vending.licensing.LicenseChecker.checkAccess(LicenseChecker.java:150)

patch:

new String(
-    Base64.decode("Y29tLmFuZHJvaWQudmVuZGluZy5saWNlbnNpbmcuSUxpY2Vuc2luZ1NlcnZpY2U="))),
+    Base64.decode("Y29tLmFuZHJvaWQudmVuZGluZy5saWNlbnNpbmcuSUxpY2Vuc2luZ1NlcnZpY2U=")))
+    .setPackage("com.android.vending"), // this fix the 'IllegalArgumentException: Service Intent must be explicit'
     this, // ServiceConnection.

Source: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=78505#c19