Crashing on unofficial builds is worse than crashing at startup on official builds? =P
- Dan On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Pieter <pie...@gamesquare.nl> wrote: > > The problem is a little worse for us. Our app does runs fine on 1.6 in > the simulator, but we got complaints about crashes from people running > unofficial builds: > > java.lang.ClassCastException: android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable > at com.google.android.maps.MyLocationOverlay.getLocationDot > (MyLocationOverlay.java:180) > at com.google.android.maps.MyLocationOverlay.drawMyLocation > (MyLocationOverlay.java:561) > at com.google.android.maps.MyLocationOverlay.draw > (MyLocationOverlay.java:511) > at com.google.android.maps.OverlayBundle.draw > (OverlayBundle.java:45) > at com.google.android.maps.MapView.onDraw(MapView.java:476) > > Based on the exception trace it seems the MapView widget in > combination with the MyLocation overlay is bugged in some unofficial > 1.6 build(s) but work fine in 1.6 in the simulator. Already some > people gave bad ratings (and comments) in the shop because of this > bug, and undoubtedly will in ADC2. On the web, some more scattered > reports about this problem can be found, including: > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/43615742f462bbf1/eb170a84a0ff385e?#eb170a84a0ff385e > > On the one hand, these people try an application and it just crashes > so they are entitled to give bad ratings. On the other hand, they run > an unofficial build, so maybe they should take that into account. > > We just hope relatively few judges run these builds. We actually hope > the official 1.6 comes out sooner instead of later so some potential > judges already upgraded from an unofficial build to the official 1.6 > when they judge. > > Anyway, anyone who uses MyOverlay in their application suffers from > the same problem. > > Regards, > Pieter (SpecTrek). > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
