Media projections require a foreground service of type ServiceInfo.FOREGROUND_SERVICE TYPE_MEDIA_PROJECTION in Android Pie and Q

Question

any body knows why this error occur, Media projections require a foreground service of type ServiceInfo.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_TYPE_MEDIA_PROJECTION on getMediaProjection() ev

Answer 1

Add android:foregroundServiceType="mediaProjection" to the <service> element in the manifest for your service.

Answer 2

Please make sure you have granted the required FOREGROUND_SERVICE permissions. If your targetSdkVersion = 28 using foreground services must request the FOREGROUND_SERVICE permission. So add FOREGROUND_SERVICE permission to your manifest file without which it throws SecurityException.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE" />

You can read more about this migration notes: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/android-9.0-migration#tya

Hope this will help you.....

Answer 3

Wrapping getMediaProjection(mResultCode, mResultData) inside a Handler().postDelayed() solved the problem for me.

override fun onServiceConnected(className: ComponentName, service: IBinder) {
        // We've bound to LocalService, cast the IBinder and get LocalService instance
        val binder = service as MediaProjectionService.LocalBinder
        mediaProjectionService = binder.getService()

        // delay needed because getMediaProjection() throws an error if it's called too soon
        Handler().postDelayed({
            mediaProjection = mediaProjectionManager.getMediaProjection(activityResultCode, activityData)
            startStreaming()
            serviceBound = true
        }, 1000)
    }