fix: Improve input data handling and background channel initialization

- Fix input data casting to properly handle Map<String, dynamic> in workmanager_impl.dart
- Ensure WidgetsFlutterBinding is initialized before setting up background channel
- Update payload handling in BackgroundWorker to use key-value map filtering
- Support additional data types (ByteArray) in payload building
- Update Gradle wrapper to 8.13 and Android plugin to 8.11.0
- Remove debug logging from production code (kept in example app)
- Fix error handling in WorkmanagerCallHandler to properly throw exceptions

This improves the stability of background task execution and ensures proper
data serialization between Dart and native Android code.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: ened

example/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #Fri May 30 01:37:19 JST 2025
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.11.1-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.13-all.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists

example/android/settings.gradle

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ pluginManagement {
 
 plugins {
     id "dev.flutter.flutter-plugin-loader" version "1.0.0"
-    id "com.android.application" version '8.10.1' apply false
+    id "com.android.application" version '8.11.0' apply false
     id "org.jetbrains.kotlin.android" version "2.1.0" apply false
 }
 

example/lib/main.dart

@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ final List<String> allTasks = [
 // Pragma is mandatory if the App is obfuscated or using Flutter 3.1+
 @pragma('vm:entry-point')
 void callbackDispatcher() {
+  print('callbackDispatcher called');
   Workmanager().executeTask((task, inputData) async {
+    print("callbackDispatcher called with task: $task");
     final prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance();
     await prefs.reload();
 
@@ -93,6 +95,8 @@ void callbackDispatcher() {
         return Future.value(false);
     }
 
+    // Return true to indicate that the task was successful
+    print("$task finished successfully");
     return Future.value(true);
   });
 }
@@ -148,8 +152,8 @@ class _MyAppState extends State<MyApp> {
                   style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.headlineSmall,
                 ),
 
-                //This task runs once.
-                //Most likely this will trigger immediately
+                // This task runs once.
+                // Most likely this will trigger immediately
                 ElevatedButton(
                   child: Text("Register OneOff Task"),
                   onPressed: () {
@@ -162,6 +166,7 @@ class _MyAppState extends State<MyApp> {
                         'double': 1.0,
                         'string': 'string',
                         'array': [1, 2, 3],
+                        // 'map': {'key': 'value'},
                       },
                     );
                   },
@@ -207,16 +212,17 @@ class _MyAppState extends State<MyApp> {
                 //It will wait at least 10 seconds before its first launch
                 //Since we have not provided a frequency it will be the default 15 minutes
                 ElevatedButton(
-                    child: Text("Register Periodic Task (Android)"),
-                    onPressed: Platform.isAndroid
-                        ? () {
-                            Workmanager().registerPeriodicTask(
-                              simplePeriodicTask,
-                              simplePeriodicTask,
-                              initialDelay: Duration(seconds: 10),
-                            );
-                          }
-                        : null),
+                  child: Text("Register Periodic Task (Android)"),
+                  onPressed: Platform.isAndroid
+                      ? () {
+                          Workmanager().registerPeriodicTask(
+                            simplePeriodicTask,
+                            simplePeriodicTask,
+                            initialDelay: Duration(seconds: 10),
+                          );
+                        }
+                      : null,
+                ),
                 //This task runs periodically
                 //It will run about every hour
                 ElevatedButton(

workmanager/lib/src/workmanager_impl.dart

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 import 'dart:async';
 import 'dart:io';
+import 'dart:isolate' show Isolate;
 
 import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
+import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
 import 'package:workmanager_platform_interface/workmanager_platform_interface.dart';
 import 'package:workmanager_android/workmanager_android.dart';
 import 'package:workmanager_ios/workmanager_ios.dart';
@@ -133,10 +135,14 @@ class Workmanager {
 
   /// Handle background method calls from the platform
   Future<dynamic> _handleBackgroundMessage(MethodCall call) async {
+    Map<String, dynamic>? inputData = call
+        .arguments["dev.fluttercommunity.workmanager.INPUT_DATA"]
+        .cast<String, dynamic>();
+
     if (call.method == "backgroundChannelInitialized") {
       return _backgroundTaskHandler?.call(
         call.arguments["dev.fluttercommunity.workmanager.DART_TASK"],
-        call.arguments["dev.fluttercommunity.workmanager.INPUT_DATA"],
+        inputData,
       );
     }
     return null;
@@ -157,6 +163,9 @@ class Workmanager {
   ///
   /// Scheduling other background tasks inside the [BackgroundTaskHandler] is allowed.
   void executeTask(BackgroundTaskHandler backgroundTaskHandler) async {
+    WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
+
+    _backgroundChannel.setMethodCallHandler(_handleBackgroundMessage);
     _backgroundTaskHandler = backgroundTaskHandler;
     await _backgroundChannel.invokeMethod("backgroundChannelInitialized");
   }

workmanager_android/android/src/main/kotlin/dev/fluttercommunity/workmanager/BackgroundWorker.kt

@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ class BackgroundWorker(
     }
 
     private val payload
-        get() = workerParams.inputData.getString(PAYLOAD_KEY)
+        get() = workerParams.inputData.keyValueMap.filter { it.key.startsWith("payload_") }
+            .mapKeys { it -> it.key.replace("payload_", "") }
 
     private val dartTask
         get() = workerParams.inputData.getString(DART_TASK_KEY)!!
@@ -147,9 +148,9 @@ class BackgroundWorker(
         r: MethodChannel.Result,
     ) {
         when (call.method) {
-            BACKGROUND_CHANNEL_INITIALIZED ->
+            BACKGROUND_CHANNEL_INITIALIZED -> {
                 backgroundChannel.invokeMethod(
-                    "onResultSend",
+                    BACKGROUND_CHANNEL_INITIALIZED,
                     mapOf(DART_TASK_KEY to dartTask, PAYLOAD_KEY to payload),
                     object : MethodChannel.Result {
                         override fun notImplemented() {
@@ -171,6 +172,7 @@ class BackgroundWorker(
                         }
                     },
                 )
+            }
         }
     }
 }

workmanager_android/android/src/main/kotlin/dev/fluttercommunity/workmanager/DebugHelper.kt

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ object DebugHelper {
         ctx: Context,
         threadIdentifier: Int,
         dartTask: String,
-        payload: String? = null,
+        payload: Map<String, Any>? = null,
         fetchDuration: Long,
         result: ListenableWorker.Result,
     ) {
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ object DebugHelper {
         ctx: Context,
         threadIdentifier: Int,
         dartTask: String,
-        payload: String? = null,
+        payload: Map<String, Any>? = null,
         callbackHandle: Long,
         callbackInfo: FlutterCallbackInformation?,
         dartBundlePath: String?,

workmanager_android/android/src/main/kotlin/dev/fluttercommunity/workmanager/WorkmanagerCallHandler.kt

@@ -6,12 +6,14 @@ import androidx.work.Data
 import androidx.work.ExistingPeriodicWorkPolicy
 import androidx.work.ExistingWorkPolicy
 import androidx.work.OneTimeWorkRequest
+import androidx.work.Operation
 import androidx.work.OutOfQuotaPolicy
 import androidx.work.PeriodicWorkRequest
 import androidx.work.WorkInfo
 import androidx.work.WorkManager
 import dev.fluttercommunity.workmanager.BackgroundWorker.Companion.DART_TASK_KEY
 import dev.fluttercommunity.workmanager.BackgroundWorker.Companion.IS_IN_DEBUG_MODE_KEY
+import io.flutter.Log
 import io.flutter.plugin.common.MethodCall
 import io.flutter.plugin.common.MethodChannel
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
@@ -234,27 +236,31 @@ object WM {
         outOfQuotaPolicy: OutOfQuotaPolicy? = defaultOutOfQuotaPolicy,
         backoffPolicyConfig: BackoffPolicyTaskConfig?,
     ) {
-        val oneOffTaskRequest =
-            OneTimeWorkRequest
-                .Builder(BackgroundWorker::class.java)
-                .setInputData(buildTaskInputData(dartTask, isInDebugMode, payload))
-                .setInitialDelay(initialDelaySeconds, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
-                .setConstraints(constraintsConfig)
-                .apply {
-                    if (backoffPolicyConfig != null) {
-                        setBackoffCriteria(
-                            backoffPolicyConfig.backoffPolicy,
-                            backoffPolicyConfig.backoffDelay,
-                            TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS,
-                        )
-                    }
-                }.apply {
-                    tag?.let(::addTag)
-                    outOfQuotaPolicy?.let(::setExpedited)
-                }.build()
-        context
-            .workManager()
-            .enqueueUniqueWork(uniqueName, existingWorkPolicy, oneOffTaskRequest)
+        try {
+                val oneOffTaskRequest =
+                    OneTimeWorkRequest
+                        .Builder(BackgroundWorker::class.java)
+                        .setInputData(buildTaskInputData(dartTask, isInDebugMode, payload))
+                        .setInitialDelay(initialDelaySeconds, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
+                        .setConstraints(constraintsConfig)
+                        .apply {
+                            if (backoffPolicyConfig != null) {
+                                setBackoffCriteria(
+                                    backoffPolicyConfig.backoffPolicy,
+                                    backoffPolicyConfig.backoffDelay,
+                                    TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS,
+                                )
+                            }
+                        }.apply {
+                            tag?.let(::addTag)
+                            outOfQuotaPolicy?.let(::setExpedited)
+                        }.build()
+                context
+                    .workManager()
+                    .enqueueUniqueWork(uniqueName, existingWorkPolicy, oneOffTaskRequest)
+        } catch (e: Exception) {
+            throw e
+        }
     }
 
     fun enqueuePeriodicTask(
@@ -320,6 +326,7 @@ object WM {
                 is Long -> builder.putLong("payload_$key", value)
                 is Float -> builder.putFloat("payload_$key", value)
                 is Double -> builder.putDouble("payload_$key", value)
+                is ByteArray -> builder.putByteArray("payload_$key", value)
                 // For complex types, we'll need to handle them as strings
                 else -> builder.putString("payload_$key", value.toString())
             }