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Component used: WorkManager
Version used: 1.0.0-beta05
Devices/Android versions reproduced on: all devices

The context of this ticket is to support initializing WorkManager a bit later after the application cold start in order to keep cold start fast. I am aware that:

1. WorkManager has this auto-initialization support through the WorkManagerInitializer provider.
2. It can be disabled and replaced by a custom provider to call WorkManager.initialize() directly or call it from Application.onCreate().
3. A number of services and receivers are registered by WorkManager and they rely on the early initialization of the WorkManager.

During testing, I realized the WorkManager.initialize() spends non-trivial time, it could be 50ms on some low end devices. So I want to avoid that delay during the cold start and have an option to initialize WorkManager a bit later. The request is to add code into the receivers and services to initialize WorkManager by themselves if WorkManager has not been initialized. This will help to cover the time from the application startup to the time that the application initialize the WorkManager manually.

Currently, a crash will happen in those receivers and services if they are triggered before the WorkManager is initialized in the application.

03-04 22:35:15.552 5784-5784/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.pinterest, PID: 5784
    java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create service androidx.work.impl.background.systemjob.SystemJobService: java.lang.IllegalStateException: WorkManager needs to be initialized via a ContentProvider#onCreate() or an Application#onCreate().
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:3172)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap5(ActivityThread.java)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1550)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6077)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:866)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:756)
     Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: WorkManager needs to be initialized via a ContentProvider#onCreate() or an Application#onCreate().
        at androidx.work.impl.background.systemjob.SystemJobService.onCreate(SystemJobService.java:68)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:3162)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap5(ActivityThread.java) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1550) 
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) 
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6077) 
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:866) 
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:756)