Support of Android 8.1 and above

[Diwei-Chen]

Followed the solution as proposed in #59

After turning off the notification setting, now Android is throwing:

Error: Android Oreo requires a notification configuration for the service to run. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#startForegroundService(android.content.Intent)

The targetSdkVersion in our android/app/build.gradle is 27 and compileSdkVersion is 28.

We found some solutions on stack overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47531742/startforeground-fail-after-upgrade-to-android-8-1 but not sure if we're doing the right thing.

Any ideas, please?

Related documentation:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#startForegroundService(android.content.Intent)

[NicholasIoanJones]

We are having the same issue. @Diwei-Chen did you solve this satisfactorily? Could you share how?

Maintainers - would be good to include instructions for configuring this in Android > 8.1

[reime005]

AFAIK it should be enough to enable the notification, by setting options: { notification: { enabled: true ... } when doing an upload

[Diwei-Chen]

@NicholasIoanJones I am sorry to tell but without enough knowledge to help improve the Android code, we ended up with replacing this package with the fetch method in rn-fetch-blob in the sacrifice of background upload capability on Android.

[elgrones]

I solved my problem adding this line
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE" />
in my android manifest