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Bug 2759

Summary: Android findLibrary() returns NULL
Product: SDL Reporter: Sylvain <sylvain.becker>
Component: *don't know*Assignee: Gabriel Jacobo <gabomdq>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: gabomdq, philipp.wiesemann
Version: 2.0.3   
Hardware: All   
OS: Android (All)   
Attachments: patch messagebox
extra patch

Description Sylvain 2014-10-20 06:48:53 UTC 
Very rarely, loading a shared library fails. It has always happened, and the reason is not cleared, maybe : 
- bad extracted .apk
- no more memory, ...

See https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2003 for some information.

It still currently happens to me (1 per 10.000 installation I guess) and users are not happy with that.

It would be nice to have a fallback: 

  If the "findLibrary" function throw an exception (UnsatisfiedLinkError), we could display a message box to the user : 

"Sorry an error has occurred. Please try again and/or reinstall the application."

( + displaying the exception ?)
Comment 1 Gabriel Jacobo 2014-10-20 12:41:42 UTC 
Do you have a patch for this?
Comment 2 Sylvain 2014-10-20 20:02:27 UTC 
Created attachment 1910 [details]
patch messagebox

Yes! 
Here's a patch to show a MessageBox when an exception occurs while loading a shared library.

Please double-check it!
Comment 3 Gabriel Jacobo 2014-10-21 14:45:16 UTC 
Thanks! https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/8ebee8e28593
Comment 4 Sylvain 2014-10-21 16:59:59 UTC 
Oops, two minors typos :

Cancelable would be better as "false". Otherwise, the message box can be cancel with back button.
  
  dlgAlert.setCancelable(false);

Error message:
 
  "while try" => "while trying"

Thanks!
Comment 5 Sylvain 2014-10-22 17:15:35 UTC 
Created attachment 1913 [details]
extra patch

extra patch with minor modifications: 
- typo
- cancel-able set to false
- add the error message, so that the user can report it.
Comment 6 Sylvain 2014-10-22 17:16:23 UTC 
Please. have a look at the extra patch. (reopen)
Comment 7 Philipp Wiesemann 2014-10-24 09:13:46 UTC 
(In reply to Sylvain from comment #4)
> Oops, two minors typos :
> 
> Cancelable would be better as "false". Otherwise, the message box can be
> cancel with back button.
>   
>   dlgAlert.setCancelable(false);
> 
> Error message:
>  
>   "while try" => "while trying"
> 
> Thanks!

Fixed here:
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/d1bf8c7a532e
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/8f97a0f537e4
Comment 8 Sylvain 2014-10-24 09:53:22 UTC 
Thanks!

Please add also the "exception message" in the error messagebox (see patch).

This messagebox is only meant for rare case.

If the issue still happens after reinstallation, it can help people to fix themselves their device and/or to report the error message.
Comment 9 Philipp Wiesemann 2014-10-24 10:02:33 UTC 
Fixed, thanks!
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/741700a12835