androidx / androidx/media

SecurityException and Crash when Android Auto is connected

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Description

Version

Media3 1.10.1

More version details

We're seeing a lot of crashes recently. It appears to have started with Media3 Version 1.10.1, but that might not be accurate

Devices that reproduce the issue

Samsung and Google Devices, only Android 16 and 17

Devices that do not reproduce the issue

No response

Reproducible in the demo app?

Not tested

Reproduction steps

Not reproducible, but it only happens when Android Auto is connected

Expected result

App does not crash

Actual result

App crashes with this Stacktrace:

Caused by java.lang.SecurityException: Caller uid 10376 cannot set freezer state 
       at android.os.Parcel.createExceptionOrNull(Parcel.java:3354)
       at android.os.Parcel.createException(Parcel.java:3338)
       at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:3321)
       at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:3263)
       at android.app.IActivityManager$Stub$Proxy.enableAppFreezer(IActivityManager.java:10632)
       at android.os.BinderProxy$ProxyMap.getSortedInterfaceCounts(BinderProxy.java:289)
       at android.os.BinderProxy$ProxyMap.dumpProxyInterfaceCounts(BinderProxy.java:359)
       at android.os.BinderProxy$ProxyMap.set(BinderProxy.java:253)
       at android.os.BinderProxy.getInstance(BinderProxy.java:479)
       at android.os.Parcel.nativeReadStrongBinder(Parcel.java)
       at android.os.Parcel.readStrongBinder(Parcel.java:3464)
       at android.media.session.ISessionManager$Stub$Proxy.createSession(ISessionManager.java:670)
       at android.media.session.MediaSessionManager.createSession(MediaSessionManager.java:150)
       at android.media.session.MediaSession.<init>(MediaSession.java:206)
       at androidx.media3.session.legacy.MediaSessionCompat$MediaSessionImplApi29.createFwkMediaSession(MediaSessionCompat.java:2272)
       at androidx.media3.session.legacy.MediaSessionCompat$MediaSessionImplApi23.<init>(MediaSessionCompat.java:1909)
       at androidx.media3.session.legacy.MediaSessionCompat$MediaSessionImplApi28.<init>(MediaSessionCompat.java:2246)
       at androidx.media3.session.legacy.MediaSessionCompat$MediaSessionImplApi29.<init>(MediaSessionCompat.java:2266)
       at androidx.media3.session.legacy.MediaSessionCompat.<init>(MediaSessionCompat.java:353)
       at androidx.media3.session.MediaSessionLegacyStub.<init>(MediaSessionLegacyStub.java:253)
       at androidx.media3.session.MediaSessionImpl.<init>(MediaSessionImpl.java:226)
       at androidx.media3.session.MediaLibrarySessionImpl.<init>(MediaLibrarySessionImpl.java:86)
       at androidx.media3.session.MediaLibraryService$MediaLibrarySession.createImpl(MediaLibraryService.java:765)
       at androidx.media3.session.MediaLibraryService$MediaLibrarySession.createImpl(MediaLibraryService.java:126)
       at androidx.media3.session.MediaSession.<init>(MediaSession.java:802)
       at androidx.media3.session.MediaLibraryService$MediaLibrarySession.<init>(MediaLibraryService.java:730)
       at androidx.media3.session.MediaLibraryService$MediaLibrarySession$Builder.build(MediaLibraryService.java:697)
       at de.swmh.szapp.media.baseplayer.impl.service.BaseMediaServiceImpl.setMediaSession(BaseMediaServiceImpl.kt:50)
       at de.swmh.szapp.media.baseplayer.impl.service.BaseMediaServiceImpl.onCreate(BaseMediaServiceImpl.kt:22)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:5916)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleCreateService(ActivityThread.java)
       at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2924)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:110)
       at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:273)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:363)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:10060)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
       at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:632)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:975)

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