WorkManager custom initialization complains about WorkManager#initialize

Question

With: implementation "androidx.work:work-runtime:2.3.4"

I'm trying to implement custom initialization to enable more verbose logging according to these instructions.

The first snippet has one line bad: return Configuration.Builder() needs to be return new Configuration.Builder().

I extended Application as shown like this:

class MyApplication extends Application implements Configuration.Provider {
    @Override
    public Configuration getWorkManagerConfiguration() {
        return new Configuration.Builder()
                .setMinimumLoggingLevel(android.util.Log.INFO)
                .build();
    }
}

I initiate the worker like this:

WorkManager.getInstance(getApplicationContext());

And yet even after all of that I get the application to crash with this complaint:

WorkManager is not initialized properly. You have explicitly disabled WorkManagerInitializer in your manifest, have not manually called WorkManager#initialize at this point, and your Application does not implement Configuration.Provider.

Even though the instructions states:

You do not need to call WorkManager.initialize() yourself

Answer 1

Please refer to this link: https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/workmanager/advanced/custom-configuration#custom

OR

Initialize your custom WorkManager like this:

// provide custom configuration
val myConfig = Configuration.Builder()
    .setMinimumLoggingLevel(android.util.Log.INFO)
    .build()

// initialize WorkManager
WorkManager.initialize(this, myConfig)