@nativescript/background-http high number of crashes

I am seeing a lot of crashes with java.lang.IllegalArgumentException when calling net.gotev.uploadservice.UploadServiceConfig.getNamespace

java.lang.RuntimeException: 
  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService (ActivityThread.java:4673)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1700 (ActivityThread.java:301)
  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage (ActivityThread.java:2196)
  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage (Handler.java:106)
  at android.os.Looper.loop (Looper.java:246)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.main (ActivityThread.java:8653)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Native Method)
  at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run (RuntimeInit.java:602)
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main (ZygoteInit.java:1130)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 
  at net.gotev.uploadservice.UploadServiceConfig.getNamespace (UploadServiceConfig.kt:74)
  at net.gotev.uploadservice.UploadServiceConfig.getBroadcastNotificationAction (UploadServiceConfig.kt:234)
  at net.gotev.uploadservice.UploadServiceConfig.getBroadcastNotificationActionIntentFilter (UploadServiceConfig.kt:248)
  at net.gotev.uploadservice.observer.request.NotificationActionsObserver.register (NotificationActionsObserver.kt:31)
  at net.gotev.uploadservice.UploadService.onCreate (UploadService.kt:194)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService (ActivityThread.java:4661)

Other people seem to be having this issue as well (https://github.com/Vydia/react-native-background-upload/issues/288), the proposed solution is to use net.gotev:uploadservice-okhttp:4.7.0, which background-http already uses. There are some mentions in other threads that it might be due to not creating a notification channel which is supposed to happen here https://github.com/NativeScript/plugins/blob/ca9e56ae814c670f9c603157a3fe7eb70c9bbbea/packages/background-http/index.android.ts#L8

But I suspect it's not being called reliably since it's tied to application launch.
@triniwiz does it need to be strictly called on launch? Is it okay to check didInit when creating a session and if it hasn't initialised, try to do so?

Start by reading packages/background-http/index.android.ts, especially the notification-channel initialization and didInit state, then trace how a session is created. Confirm whether initialization can be skipped before UploadService starts, and use the reported UploadServiceConfig crash as the failure case; done means sessions initialize reliably without this crash.