Can someone help me understand errors in Google Play "ANR and Crashes"

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi all,

I am just after a bit of understanding.  I can see on the Google Play Console that I am getting quite a few Crashes for “java.lang.NullPointerException”.

I have added an “unhandledError” listener to my code and am manually logging the error to flurry (until a better solution is available).

[lua]

local function myUnhandledErrorListener( event )

    local iHandledTheError = true

    if iHandledTheError then

        print( “Handling the unhandled error”, event.errorMessage )

        local analytics = require (“scripts.helper.analytics”)

        analytics.logError( event)

    else

        print( “Not handling the unhandled error”, event.errorMessage )

    end

    

    return iHandledTheError

end

Runtime:addEventListener(“unhandledError”, myUnhandledErrorListener)

[/lua]

This works perfectly when I build on my device, and it logs perfectly with flurry.  However I am not getting any notifications on flurry about these errors that I am seeing on the Google Play Console.  Why would these errors not be caught by the “unhandledError” event listener?  I am worried that the errors are impacting on my retention etc.

Cheers,

Craig

#2

This is not a lua error so the exception catch would not catch this. I would suggest you look at the plugins you are using and what parameters you are sending in. Sometimes the actual trace gives you hits on what exactly is going on.

#3

This is not a lua error so the exception catch would not catch this. I would suggest you look at the plugins you are using and what parameters you are sending in. Sometimes the actual trace gives you hits on what exactly is going on.