Workmanager injection causing illegalState exception

Question

I have recently our app where workManager is being provided by @Provides annotation

    @Provides
    @Singleton
    fun provideWorkManager(@ForApplication context: Context): WorkManager {
        return WorkManager.getInstance(context)
    }

Out of 800K installs very small subset of users, google play is reporting following error, has anyone seen something similar.

I am using dagger version 2.38.1 and workManager version 2.3.4


java.lang.RuntimeException: 
  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication (ActivityThread.java:6998)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1300 (ActivityThread.java:270)
  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage (ActivityThread.java:2051)
  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage (Handler.java:107)
  at android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:237)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.main (ActivityThread.java:7948)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Native Method)
  at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run (RuntimeInit.java:493)
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main (ZygoteInit.java:1075)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: 
  at androidx.work.impl.WorkManagerImpl.getInstance (SourceFile:156)
  at androidx.work.WorkManager.getInstance (SourceFile:184)
  at com.microsoft.yammer.domain.injection.CoreDomainModule.provideWorkManager (SourceFile:170)
  at com.microsoft.yammer.domain.injection.CoreDomainModule_ProvideWorkManagerFactory.provideWorkManager (SourceFile:38)java.lang.RuntimeException: 
  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication (ActivityThread.java:6998)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1300 (ActivityThread.java:270)
  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage (ActivityThread.java:2051)
  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage (Handler.java:107)
  at android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:237)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.main (ActivityThread.java:7948)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Native Method)
  at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run (RuntimeInit.java:493)
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main (ZygoteInit.java:1075)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: 
  at androidx.work.impl.WorkManagerImpl.getInstance (SourceFile:156)
  at androidx.work.WorkManager.getInstance (SourceFile:184)
  at XXX.XYZModule.provideWorkManager (SourceFile:170)
  at XXX.XYZModule_ProvideWorkManagerFactory.provideWorkManager (SourceFile:38)

I see this warning in very old 1.0.0-alpha11 change set https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/work#1.0.0-alpha11 ```Attempting to initialize WorkManager more than once per process will now result in an IllegalStateException. This is a breaking change.``` — Subodh Nijsure, Dec 07 '21 at 01:18

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '21 at 17:29

I don't have enough reputation to leave a comment but wanted to share some stackoverflow answers that I've found in regards to some phones killing the background tasks.

WorkManager is not working as intended in devices and some emulators

Android Work Manager is not working in my oppo phone

Not sure whether you've come across these answers but it may be the cause of your errors as you've mentioned that the app is working on most phones.

Workmanager injection causing illegalState exception

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