Hi Markus,
Since you say that you can reproduce it with the Freeze app, I was wondering if you could also do it on another app which is not Corona based. The stack trace you gave indicates an issue with Google Play services.
Hi! I tested a few non-Corona games with Nexus 5 / Android 5.0.0: Cut the Rope 2, Plants vs Zombies 2 and Smash Hit: I was able to get all of them to crash with the same sequence of going to achievements view and back… So it seems the Google Play services itself has some stability problems on 5.0.0.
However, it feels like that this crash happens more often with our game. Anyway, we’ll be submitting an update soon for the game and we’ll follow closely if some of these bugs I reported have disappeared.
A short update related to Google Play Game Services:
Google now updated the Google Play Games to version 2.2.05 that contains stability improvements and bugfixes. This update seems to have improved the stability a lot on Android 5.0.0. We have experienced only one crash on 5.0.0 by quickly toggling between achievements view and the game. Additionally, we haven’t seen a single crash ourselves yet with Android 5.0.1 on Nexus 7 (2013 model).
Hi!
Our current status is that Google Play Games 2.2.05 / Google Play services 6.5.99 (or some bit earlier version too) seems to be eliminating the Google Play Games problem (issue #1). Players who were experiencing problems are sending feedback that the game is working fine now when they updated Google Play games. Also we haven’t seen any crash reports from issues #2 or #3 either.
However, there still seems to be something wrong with the Google IAP v3 init (a rare one, one single report from Android 4.0.3-4.0.4):
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException Java Stack Trace: plugin.google.iap.v3.util.IabHelper.startSetup(IabHelper.java:269) plugin.google.iap.v3.LuaLoader.init(LuaLoader.java:159) plugin.google.iap.v3.LuaLoader.access$1300(LuaLoader.java:36) plugin.google.iap.v3.LuaLoader$InitWrapper.invoke(LuaLoader.java:419) com.ansca.corona.JavaToNativeShim.nativeRender(Native Method) com.ansca.corona.JavaToNativeShim.render(JavaToNativeShim.java:175) com.ansca.corona.Controller.updateRuntimeState(Controller.java:293) com.ansca.corona.graphics.opengl.CoronaGLSurfaceView$CoronaRenderer.onDrawFrame(CoronaGLSurfaceView.java:417) com.ansca.corona.graphics.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.guardedRun(GLSurfaceView.java:1622) com.ansca.corona.graphics.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.run(GLSurfaceView.java:1377) stack traceback: [C]: ? [C]: in function 'init' ?: in function 'listener' /Users/jenkins/slaveroot/workspace/Templates/label/android/subrepos/timer/timer.lua:173: in function 'method' /Users/jenkins/slaveroot/workspace/Templates/label/android/platform/resources/init.lua:253: in function \</Users/jenkins/slaveroot/workspace/Templates/label/android/platform/resources/init.lua:221\>
Also, we added a couple of seconds delay between the loading the admob module, and performing ads.init() for it in the game startup: I’m not sure if this helped, but we haven’t seen any signs of issue #4 either.
One last thing, we are not sure if this is the report caused by the Google Play Games crash problem, but this is only occuring with Android 5.0.0 and this is the most common one we’ve been receiving (31 reports):
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to pause activity {com.badcrane.rgbexpress/com.ansca.corona.CoronaActivity}: java.util.ConcurrentModificationException at android.app.ActivityThread.performPauseActivity(ActivityThread.java:3225) at android.app.ActivityThread.performPauseActivity(ActivityThread.java:3184) at android.app.ActivityThread.handlePauseActivity(ActivityThread.java:3159) at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1000(ActivityThread.java:144) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1289) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5221) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:899) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:694) Caused by: java.util.ConcurrentModificationException at java.util.HashMap$HashIterator.nextEntry(HashMap.java:787) at java.util.HashMap$KeyIterator.next(HashMap.java:814) at com.ansca.corona.MediaManager.pauseAll(MediaManager.java:244) at com.ansca.corona.Controller.stop(Controller.java:251) at com.ansca.corona.CoronaActivity.requestSuspendCoronaRuntime(CoronaActivity.java:922) at com.ansca.corona.CoronaActivity.onPause(CoronaActivity.java:780) at android.app.Activity.performPause(Activity.java:6044) at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnPause(Instrumentation.java:1294) at android.app.ActivityThread.performPauseActivity(ActivityThread.java:3211) ... 11 more
Markus
Can you try to rebuild again and test the store.init() call.
Rob
Hi Rob,
Thanks! We will follow the situation with the next update, as we can’t reproduce the store.init() error ourselves but have just been receiving crash reports.
And an update to the Google Play issue: there still seems to be crashes, at least on Android 5.0.0 devices when opening / closing achievements view. Also seems to happen with the latest Google Play services (version 6.5.99).
Markus
Hi again,
We are still seeing the issue #1, Google Play services crash with RGB Express when opening and closing achievements view few times in a row. We’ve only seen this happening on Nexus 5 and LG G2 devices. A dialog with “Unfortunately, Google Play services has stopped.” is displayed when calling gameNetwork.show( “achievements” ).
Sometimes the crash occurs already in the first time when opening the achievements view, and if the crash occurs and we try to restart the game and the achievements view, Google Play usually crashes again second time in a row.
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Nexus 5 / Android 5.0.1 always eventually crashes. Crashed also with Android 5.0.0.
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LG G2 / Android 4.4.2 always eventually crashes (practically same device as Nexus 5)
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Nexus 7 (2013 model) / Android 5.0.1: does NOT crash. Nor any other device we’ve tested besides Nexus 5 / LG G2.
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Corona SDK 2015.2538 in use, but the behaviour was identical with previous builds / SDK versions too.
This bug seems to occur most often with RGB Express, less often with Freeze! (a Corona SDK game as well), and least often with native Android games. Native games eventually seem to crash too by opening/closing the achievements view *many* times in a row on Nexus 5, but the crash occurs a bit too often with our game and we’ve received some complaints about this.
The crash still looks the same as before:
I/ActivityManager( 740): START u0 {act=com.google.android.gms.games.VIEW\_ACHIEVEMENTS dat=version:4242000 flg=0x4000000 pkg=com.google.android.gms cmp=com.google.android.gms/.games.ui.client.achievements.ClientAchievementListActivity} from uid 10119 on display 0 W/PopupManager( 4641): You have not specified a View to use as content view for popups. Falling back to the Activity content view which may not work properly in future versions of the API. Use setViewForPopups() to set your content view. W/GmsClientEvents( 4641): registerConnectionCallbacks(): listener AchievementFragment{3d6997e4 #0 id=0x7f0f01d8} is already registered W/GmsClientEvents( 4641): registerConnectionFailedListener(): listener AchievementFragment{3d6997e4 #0 id=0x7f0f01d8} is already registered I/ActivityManager( 740): Displayed com.google.android.gms/.games.ui.client.achievements.ClientAchievementListActivity: +104ms D/AndroidRuntime( 4641): Shutting down VM E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): FATAL EXCEPTION: main E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): Process: com.google.android.gms.ui, PID: 4641 E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.view.ViewGroup.getLocationInWindow(int[])' on a null object reference E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at com.google.android.play.a.a.a(SourceFile:128) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at com.google.android.gms.games.ui.cp.run(SourceFile:45) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at com.google.android.gms.games.ui.co.a(SourceFile:51) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at android.support.v7.widget.br.run(SourceFile:248) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:767) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:580) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:549) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:753) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5221) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:899) E/AndroidRuntime( 4641): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:694) W/ActivityManager( 740): Force finishing activity com.google.android.gms/.games.ui.client.achievements.ClientAchievementListActivity W/ActivityManager( 740): Force finishing activity com.badcrane.rgbexpress/com.ansca.corona.CoronaActivity I/Adreno-EGL( 740): \<qeglDrvAPI\_eglInitialize:410\>: QUALCOMM Build: 10/24/14, 167c270, I68fa98814b I/OpenGLRenderer( 740): Initialized EGL, version 1.4 W/ActivityManager( 740): Activity pause timeout for ActivityRecord{3f834557 u0 com.google.android.gms/.games.ui.client.achievements.ClientAchievementListActivity t2039 f} E/Sensors ( 192): sns\_acm\_mr.c(432):Transport error -45 I/OpenAL\_SLES( 3634): opensles\_stop\_playback device=0x7ee98000 I/OpenAL\_SLES( 3634): opensles\_close\_playback pDevice=0x7ee98000 W/OpenGLRenderer( 1199): Incorrectly called buildLayer on View: aep, destroying layer... W/OpenGLRenderer( 1199): Incorrectly called buildLayer on View: aep, destroying layer...
Does anyone else have Google Play achievements in their Corona games and a Nexus 5 or LG G2 as a test device? Have you seen this bug occuring?
Markus
Hi Markus,
Weirdly I’m having the exact same crash error in my game, build with Gideros. Maybe it’s a Google Play issue rather than a Corona/Gideros issue.
It’s likely that when we solve this problem on Corona or Gideros it will work on the other.
Cheers,
Niclas
It appears this issue also occurs in Unity: https://github.com/playgameservices/play-games-plugin-for-unity/issues/369