diff --git a/flutter_local_notifications/CHANGELOG.md b/flutter_local_notifications/CHANGELOG.md
index 41744831b..b916750b4 100644
--- a/flutter_local_notifications/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/flutter_local_notifications/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## [17.1.2]
+
+* [Android] fixed issue [2318](https://github.com/MaikuB/flutter_local_notifications/issues/2318) where an exception could occur on calling the `getNotificationChannels()` method from the `AndroidFlutterLocalNotificationsPlugin` class. This happened when Android found that the audio attributes associated with the channel was null. The plugin will now coalesce the null value to indicate that the usage of the audio is for notifications as per https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/AudioAttributes#USAGE_NOTIFICATION. On the Dart side, this would correspond to the [AudioAttributesUsage.notification](https://pub.dev/documentation/flutter_local_notifications/latest/flutter_local_notifications/AudioAttributesUsage.html#notification) enum value
+
 ## [17.1.1]
 
 * [Android] fixes issue [#2299](https://github.com/MaikuB/flutter_local_notifications/issues/2299) where within the range of the max integer value of epoch time passed to a messaging style would result in a casting exception
diff --git a/flutter_local_notifications/android/src/main/java/com/dexterous/flutterlocalnotifications/FlutterLocalNotificationsPlugin.java b/flutter_local_notifications/android/src/main/java/com/dexterous/flutterlocalnotifications/FlutterLocalNotificationsPlugin.java
index ce86cc5ad..409a26a50 100644
--- a/flutter_local_notifications/android/src/main/java/com/dexterous/flutterlocalnotifications/FlutterLocalNotificationsPlugin.java
+++ b/flutter_local_notifications/android/src/main/java/com/dexterous/flutterlocalnotifications/FlutterLocalNotificationsPlugin.java
@@ -2081,7 +2081,12 @@ private HashMap<String, Object> getMappedNotificationChannel(NotificationChannel
       channelPayload.put("vibrationPattern", channel.getVibrationPattern());
       channelPayload.put("enableLights", channel.shouldShowLights());
       channelPayload.put("ledColor", channel.getLightColor());
-      channelPayload.put("audioAttributesUsage", channel.getAudioAttributes().getUsage());
+      final AudioAttributes audioAttributes = channel.getAudioAttributes();
+      channelPayload.put(
+          "audioAttributesUsage",
+          audioAttributes == null
+              ? AudioAttributes.USAGE_NOTIFICATION
+              : audioAttributes.getUsage());
     }
     return channelPayload;
   }
diff --git a/flutter_local_notifications/pubspec.yaml b/flutter_local_notifications/pubspec.yaml
index 02be2abd3..9422b5282 100644
--- a/flutter_local_notifications/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/flutter_local_notifications/pubspec.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: flutter_local_notifications
 description: A cross platform plugin for displaying and scheduling local
   notifications for Flutter applications with the ability to customise for each
   platform.
-version: 17.1.1
+version: 17.1.2
 homepage: https://github.com/MaikuB/flutter_local_notifications/tree/master/flutter_local_notifications
 issue_tracker: https://github.com/MaikuB/flutter_local_notifications/issues