Android App crashes on Lollipop - Service Intent must be explicit: [duplicate]

Answer 1

If I had to wager a guess, the line that is causing you problems is:

    licenseChecker.checkAccess(licenseCheckerCallback);

or the line above it which creates the licenseChecker. This looks like it could be trying to talk to a Service. Starting with Lollipop, all bound services must be bound using an explicit Intent. The error you are seeing is because something is calling bindService() and providing an Intent object in which no ComponentName has been set.

Answer 2

This is a known bug of the Google Play Licensing Library. The issue is assigned and it will be fixed in the future, in the mean time if you want to use the library also with Lollipop there is a workaround:

In LicenseChecker.java change from this:

boolean bindResult = mContext.bindService(new Intent(new String(Base64.decode("Y29tLmFuZHJvaWQudmVuZGluZy5saWNlbnNpbmcuSUxpY2Vuc2luZ1NlcnZpY2U="))),
                                          this, // ServiceConnection.
                                          Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);

to this:

Intent serviceIntent = new Intent(new String(Base64.decode("Y29tLmFuZHJvaWQudmVuZGluZy5saWNlbnNpbmcuSUxpY2Vuc2luZ1NlcnZpY2U=")));
serviceIntent.setPackage("com.android.vending");

boolean bindResult = mContext.bindService(serviceIntent,
                                          this, // ServiceConnection.
                                          Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);