Two related Android setup gaps caught when running on a clean Pixel 6
emulator:
1. MainActivity extended FlutterActivity, but the audio_service
plugin requires AudioServiceActivity. AudioService.init() threw
PlatformException("The Activity class declared in your
AndroidManifest.xml is wrong"), and the partial-engine-reinit that
followed cascaded into a flutter_cache_manager SQLite EXCLUSIVE
lock crash. Both errors clear with the correct base class.
2. The main manifest was missing two production permissions:
- POST_NOTIFICATIONS — Android 13+ runtime requirement for the
media notification (now-playing tile in the system tray).
audio_service auto-prompts at init() time once declared.
- ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE — used by ConnectionErrorBanner +
flutter_cache_manager for connectivity awareness.
Note for future contributors: src/main/AndroidManifest.xml IS the
production manifest. The src/debug and src/profile variants only add
dev-only entries (e.g. INTERNET re-declared in debug for hot-reload).
There is no separate "release" manifest in Flutter's convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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