ACRA is crashing on Kitkat

Running apk on android 5.1.1 works without issues. Running same APK with ARCA on kitkt with Dalvik cause crash immediately because ARCA init failed.

E/dalvikvm(11066): Could not find class 'org.acra.log.AndroidLogDelegate', referenced from method org.acra.ACRA.<clinit>
W/dalvikvm(11066): VFY: unable to resolve new-instance 9562 (Lorg/acra/log/AndroidLogDelegate;) in Lorg/acra/ACRA;
E/dalvikvm(11066): Could not find class 'org.acra.config.ConfigurationBuilder', referenced from method org.acra.ACRA.getNewDefaultConfig
W/dalvikvm(11066): VFY: unable to resolve new-instance 9552 (Lorg/acra/config/ConfigurationBuilder;) in Lorg/acra/ACRA;
E/dalvikvm(11066): Could not find class 'org.acra.config.ConfigurationBuilder', referenced from method org.acra.ACRA.init
W/dalvikvm(11066): VFY: unable to resolve new-instance 9552 (Lorg/acra/config/ConfigurationBuilder;) in Lorg/acra/ACRA;
E/dalvikvm(11066): Could not find class 'org.acra.legacy.ReportMigrator', referenced from method org.acra.ACRA.init
W/dalvikvm(11066): VFY: unable to resolve new-instance 9560 (Lorg/acra/legacy/ReportMigrator;) in Lorg/acra/ACRA;
E/dalvikvm(11066): Could not find class 'org.acra.util.ApplicationStartupProcessor', referenced from method org.acra.ACRA.init
W/dalvikvm(11066): VFY: unable to resolve new-instance 9583 (Lorg/acra/util/ApplicationStartupProcessor;) in Lorg/acra/ACRA;
E/dalvikvm(11066): Could not find class 'org.acra.ACRA$1', referenced from method org.acra.ACRA.init
W/dalvikvm(11066): VFY: unable to resolve new-instance 9517 (Lorg/acra/ACRA$1;) in Lorg/acra/ACRA;
W/dalvikvm(11066): VFY: unable to resolve exception class 9551 (Lorg/acra/config/ACRAConfigurationException;)
W/dalvikvm(11066): VFY: unable to find exception handler at addr 0xec
W/dalvikvm(11066): VFY:  rejected Lorg/acra/ACRA;.init (Landroid/app/Application;Lorg/acra/config/ACRAConfiguration;Z)V
W/dalvikvm(11066): VFY:  rejecting opcode 0x0d at 0x00ec
W/dalvikvm(11066): VFY:  rejected Lorg/acra/ACRA;.init (Landroid/app/Application;Lorg/acra/config/ACRAConfiguration;Z)V
W/dalvikvm(11066): Verifier rejected class Lorg/acra/ACRA;
W/dalvikvm(11066): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x416d2e18)
E/ActivityManager(  727): App crashed! Process: com.comtechtel.finderkit.locationagent
E/AndroidRuntime(11066): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(11066): Process: com.comtechtel.finderkit.locationagent, PID: 11066
E/AndroidRuntime(11066): java.lang.VerifyError: org/acra/ACRA
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at com.locationtoolkit.locationagent.ServiceApplication.onCreate(ServiceApplication.java:34)
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callApplicationOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1020)
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:5154)
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:156)
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1418)
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:157)
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5872)
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:858)
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:674)
E/AndroidRuntime(11066):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
W/ActivityManager(  727):   Force finishing activity com.comtechtel.finderkit.locationagent/com.locationtoolkit.locationagent.ServiceActivity

[william-ferguson-au]

This is almost certainly a multidex issue.

The top 4 answers on StackOverflow are:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29033800/noclassdeffounderror-below-sdk-21
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26655541/multidex-noclassdeffound-error
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32697460/android-studio-e-dalvikvm-could-not-find-class-databasehelper-referenced-fr
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27340058/android-multidex-and-support-libraries

[alemiser]

The links were very helpful. The only change I had to make is to extend from MultiDexApplication instead of Application. It is running normally on kitkat now.

Thanks so much! public class ServiceApplication extends MultiDexApplication { @Override public void onCreate() { // The following line triggers the initialization of ACRA super.onCreate(); ACRA.init(this); }

}