Android APK sanity check

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu May 31 16:01:45 EDT 2018


Thanks for the comments. I've actually seen the problem with initial 
startup on a few apps but in this case a relaunch still crashes. :(

Since you have a few older devices, it might help the team narrow down 
what's affected if you try out my test stack. Bug report is here:
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21325

I only have Android Marshmallow on my test phone(s) but I'm betting it 
will fail with any older OS. Or it may be the version of Java I 
installed, which I believe LC 9 required.

On 5/31/18 2:46 PM, Clarence Martin via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi Jacque,
> You have been one of the people on the List that has answered many of my
> questions about building Android Applications. I do have an application that
> uses mergJSON and the problem that I have is only during the initial
> starting of the application after the APK is loaded. I also get a blank
> initial screen. I found that if I close the application and then restart the
> application - it runs. I have also had problems with applications locking up
> on one Android Device and will run on another without problems. The problems
> that I encountered were mainly opening data files across the internet on the
> failing device. I actually solved some of those problems by putting a delay
> after  I call for data across the internet. Both devices are using Android
> 5.1.1. The failing Device  is a Nexus 7 and the other device that doesn't
> fail is a generic X10 Chinese cheaper Tablet. The only other problem I
> noticed with LC 9 is a latency in starting the applications.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com> On Behalf Of J.
> Landman Gay via use-livecode
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> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Cc: J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> Subject: Re: Android APK sanity check
> 
> I created a plain do-nothing stack and it works on my Samsung. Then I set
> the inclusions to same ones in my working project. The plain stack then had
> the same misbehavior -- black screen and crash on launch.
> 
> One by one I turned off each inclusion, tested, and then turned it back on
> and disabled the next one. It looks like the culprit is mergJSON.
> With that included I get the crash, without it the apk behaves.
> 
> I'll submit my test stack and a bug report.
> 
> On 5/31/18 3:12 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The first thing that came to my mind was the bug report that Paul
>> referenced, but I had a look at the Samsung S5 specs and it seems it
>> has an ARM chip, so it should not be affected by this bug.
>>
>> @Jacque does that happen with any android standalone you build with LC
>> 9.0.0, or just this particular one?
>>
>> Best,
>> Panos
> 
> 


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