Backendless.initapp Crashes - build.gradle

Question

My app crashes on Backendless.initapp on this line:
Backendless.initApp(this, "8B896105-6244-894C-FF80-9C8045E66600", "D07AC071-C614-2A0D-FF05-E36C6C98B700");
I am using instantApp features and my features Gradle Module looks like so:
apply plugin: 'com.android.feature'
android {
compileSdkVersion 27
defaultConfig {
minSdkVersion 15
targetSdkVersion 27
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}
buildTypes {
release {
minifyEnabled false
}
}
lintOptions {
disable 'InvalidPackage', 'RtlCompat'
abortOnError false
}
defaultConfig {
multiDexEnabled true
}
dexOptions {
javaMaxHeapSize "3g" //specify the heap size for the dex process
}
}
dependencies {
implementation fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
implementation group: 'com.backendless', name: 'backendless', version: '5.0.0'
// required for real-time database and real-time messaging
implementation ('io.socket:socket.io-client:1.0.0') {
// excluding org.json which is provided by Android
exclude group: 'org.json', module: 'json'
}
implementation project(':base')
testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test:runner:1.0.2'
androidTestImplementation 'com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.0.2'
}
I can confirm that I do have the Backendless SDK installed. I am suspecting that it could be a targeting version issue as the sample targets SDK version 26.
Here is the crash log:
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1607)
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1552)
at com.google.android.instantapps.supervisor.ipc.base.MethodInvocationProxy.readReply(PG:2)
at com.google.android.instantapps.supervisor.ipc.base.MethodInvocationProxy.invoke(PG:17)
at java.lang.reflect.Proxy.invoke(Proxy.java:393)
at $Proxy37.startService(Unknown Source)
at android.app.ContextImpl.startServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:1245)
at android.app.ContextImpl.startService(ContextImpl.java:1227)
at android.content.ContextWrapper.startService(ContextWrapper.java:581)
at com.backendless.Backendless.initApp(Backendless.java:196)
at com.theswazi.hobbyist.feature.RegisterActivity.onCreate(RegisterActivity.java:38)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6309)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1113)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2530)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2665) 
at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(ActivityThread.java) 
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1499) 
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:111) 
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:207) 
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5771) 
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:789) 
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:679) 

Answer 1

I ran App without Instant Run and it no longer crashes at Backendless.initApp.
Edit
It seems that the error occurs with Android version 6 but since I only had one device with version 6 I am not entirely sure. I did try another device with Android version 5.1.1 which worked.