PayPalService has leaked ServiceConnection

[jbaginski]

E/ActivityThread: Service com.paypal.android.sdk.payments.PayPalService has leaked ServiceConnection com.google.android.gms.common.g@ae272be that was originally bound here
       android.app.ServiceConnectionLeaked: Service com.paypal.android.sdk.payments.PayPalService has leaked ServiceConnection com.google.android.gms.common.g@ae272be that was originally bound here
           at android.app.LoadedApk$ServiceDispatcher.<init>(LoadedApk.java:1092)
           at android.app.LoadedApk.getServiceDispatcher(LoadedApk.java:986)
           at android.app.ContextImpl.bindServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:1303)
           at android.app.ContextImpl.bindService(ContextImpl.java:1286)
           at android.content.ContextWrapper.bindService(ContextWrapper.java:604)
           at com.google.android.gms.common.stats.b.a(Unknown Source)
           at com.google.android.gms.common.stats.b.a(Unknown Source)
           at com.google.android.gms.ads.identifier.AdvertisingIdClient.zzp(Unknown Source)
           at com.google.android.gms.ads.identifier.AdvertisingIdClient.zzb(Unknown Source)
           at com.google.android.gms.ads.identifier.AdvertisingIdClient.getAdvertisingIdInfo(Unknown Source)
           at com.paypal.android.sdk.au.run(Unknown Source)
           at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

our code:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    Intent intent = new Intent(this, PayPalService.class);
    intent.putExtra(PayPalService.EXTRA_PAYPAL_CONFIGURATION, PayPalPaymentService.getPaypalConfig());
    startService(intent);

    // ...
}

@Override
public void onDestroy() {
    stopService(new Intent(this, PayPalService.class));
    super.onDestroy();
}

PayPal SDK v2.13.1
Google Play Services v8.4.0

[braebot]

Hmm, I'm not sure if this is an issue that we can fix. There's an API internal to the SDK that is just calling getAdvertisingIdInfo(). Perhaps we need to do a proper shut down of that client?

[naitikvithlani]

@jbaginski
I was also facing the same issue in my application, it was caused by other dependency library used with gradle.

once checked with either library with PayPal, I solved it. Please check with your application other dependency libraries.

[randstraw]

closing the issue, please let us know if further assistance is needed.