Google In-App billing, IllegalArgumentException: Service Intent must be explicit, after upgrading to Android L Dev Preview

android android-intent in-app-billing illegalargumentexception android-5.0-lollipop
elliptic1 picture elliptic1 · Jun 29, 2014 · Viewed 26k times · Source

My in-app billing code was working fine until I upgraded to the Android L Dev Preview. Now I get this error when my app starts. Does anyone know what's changed about L that causes this or how I should change my code to fix this?

android {
compileSdkVersion 'android-L'
buildToolsVersion '20'
defaultConfig {
    minSdkVersion 13
    targetSdkVersion 'L'
...
...


compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:5.+'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:21.+'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.+'
...
...

The error when the app starts:

06-29 16:22:33.281    5719-5719/com.tbse.wnswfree D/AndroidRuntime﹕ Shutting down VM
06-29 16:22:33.284    5719-5719/com.tbse.wnswfree E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.tbse.wnswfree, PID: 5719
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.tbse.wnswfree/com.tbse.wnswfree.InfoPanel}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Service Intent must be explicit: Intent { act=com.android.vending.billing.InAppBillingService.BIND }
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2255)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2317)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:143)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1258)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5070)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:836)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:631)
 Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Service Intent must be explicit: Intent { act=com.android.vending.billing.InAppBillingService.BIND }
        at android.app.ContextImpl.validateServiceIntent(ContextImpl.java:1603)
        at android.app.ContextImpl.bindServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:1702)
        at android.app.ContextImpl.bindService(ContextImpl.java:1680)
        at android.content.ContextWrapper.bindService(ContextWrapper.java:528)
        at com.tbse.wnswfree.util.IabHelper.startSetup(IabHelper.java:262)
        at com.tbse.wnswfree.InfoPanel.onStart(InfoPanel.java:709)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnStart(Instrumentation.java:1217)
        at android.app.Activity.performStart( Activity.java:5736)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity( ActivityThread.java:2218)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity( ActivityThread.java:2317)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800( ActivityThread.java:143)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage( ActivityThread.java:1258)
        ...

           

Line 709 in InfoPanel.java:

        mHelper.startSetup(new IabHelper.OnIabSetupFinishedListener() {
          @Override
          public void onIabSetupFinished(IabResult result) {
            ...

Answer

alav picture alav · Nov 19, 2014

I had the same problem and explicitly setting the package solved it. Similar to Aleksey's answer, but simpler:

Intent intent = new Intent("com.android.vending.billing.InAppBillingService.BIND");
// This is the key line that fixed everything for me
intent.setPackage("com.android.vending");

getContext().bindService(intent, serviceConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);

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