How to debug WorkManager

Any operation that requires working in the background and sometimes making network calls need proper exception handling. This is due to the fact that you do not want your users facing issues and a lack of exception handling coming back to haunt your team or you as a developer.

Hence, knowing how to debug WorkManager will come in handy, as this is one of those issues that might last for days if you have a bug. In this recipe, we will look at how to debug WorkManager.

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, you must have completed all previous recipes of this chapter.

How to do it…

You might encounter an issue where WorkManager no longer runs if it is out of sync. Follow this recipe to debug WorkManager:

1. To be able to set up debugging, we will need to first create a custom initialization in our AndroidManifest.xml file, that is, by disabling the WorkManager initializer:

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