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The app started to crash after we started using BluetoothMedic tests

See original GitHub issue

Expected behavior

Does not crash

Actual behavior

The app is crashing with the following stacktrace:

Fatal Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke interface method 'boolean android.bluetooth.IBluetooth.isMultiAdvertisementSupported()' on a null object reference
       at android.bluetooth.BluetoothAdapter.isMultipleAdvertisementSupported(BluetoothAdapter.java:1201)
       at android.bluetooth.BluetoothAdapter.getBluetoothLeAdvertiser(BluetoothAdapter.java:631)
       at org.altbeacon.bluetooth.BluetoothMedic.runTransmitterTest(Unknown Source)
       at org.altbeacon.bluetooth.BluetoothTestJob$1.run(Unknown Source)
       at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:145)
       at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)

Steps to reproduce this behavior

Unknown

Mobile device model and OS version

According to Crashlytics, 100% of crashes (on our app) happened on Samsung Galaxy S4, running Android 5.0.1

Android Beacon Library version

2.13.1

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

davidgyoungcommented, Jun 6, 2018

#675 merged into master and released as 2.14

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davidgyoungcommented, Apr 26, 2018

@agap, I have a proposed fix in #675, but I cannot verify that it works without a reproducible test case.

Would you be willing to try it out in an app update to see if it eliminates these crashes? If so, I will roll you an ad hoc binary release with instructions on using it with your app.

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