Widget issue: BroadcastQueue: Background execution not allowed: receiving Intent

Question

My app widget stops working after upgrading to targetSDk to 28.

• It is flawlessly working on old targetsdk devices.

I am getting the following e

Answer 1

This worked for me! Change your implicit intent to explicit intent, because starting Oreo implicit intents don't run in background! https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/background.html