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Fatal Exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android/graphics/Outline

See original GitHub issue

Info:

ReactNative: 0.30
Platform: Android
Device: Nexus 5
Android OS: 4.4.2
Rooted: true

Problem:

The problem, as I see it, is that android.graphics.Outline was introduced in Lollipop 5.0 and it is used in ReactViewBackgroundDrawable.java as an import and as a method parameter. So OSs less than this will crash when this is hit.

StackTrace:

Fatal Exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android/graphics/Outline
       at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java)
       at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:656)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.getExportedPropertyMethods(ViewDebug.java:960)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.exportMethods(ViewDebug.java:1047)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewProperties(ViewDebug.java:997)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.exportFields(ViewDebug.java:1175)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewProperties(ViewDebug.java:996)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewProperties(ViewDebug.java:983)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpView(ViewDebug.java:900)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewHierarchy(ViewDebug.java:855)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewHierarchy(ViewDebug.java:867)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewHierarchy(ViewDebug.java:867)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewHierarchy(ViewDebug.java:867)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewHierarchy(ViewDebug.java:867)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dump(ViewDebug.java:793)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dispatchCommand(ViewDebug.java:416)
       at android.view.ViewRootImpl$W.executeCommand(ViewRootImpl.java:6258)
       at android.view.IWindow$Stub.onTransact(IWindow.java:65)
       at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:404)
       at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(NativeStart.java)
Caused by java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "android.graphics.Outline" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.curse.highwind-1.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app-lib/com.curse.highwind-1, /vendor/lib, /system/lib]]
       at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:56)
       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:497)
       at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:457)
       at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java)
       at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:656)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.getExportedPropertyMethods(ViewDebug.java:960)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.exportMethods(ViewDebug.java:1047)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewProperties(ViewDebug.java:997)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.exportFields(ViewDebug.java:1175)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewProperties(ViewDebug.java:996)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewProperties(ViewDebug.java:983)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpView(ViewDebug.java:900)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewHierarchy(ViewDebug.java:855)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewHierarchy(ViewDebug.java:867)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewHierarchy(ViewDebug.java:867)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewHierarchy(ViewDebug.java:867)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dumpViewHierarchy(ViewDebug.java:867)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dump(ViewDebug.java:793)
       at android.view.ViewDebug.dispatchCommand(ViewDebug.java:416)
       at android.view.ViewRootImpl$W.executeCommand(ViewRootImpl.java:6258)
       at android.view.IWindow$Stub.onTransact(IWindow.java:65)
       at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:404)
       at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(NativeStart.java)

Issue Analytics

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:15 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

7reactions

oneycommented, Aug 15, 2016

If you set multiDexEnabled true in android/app/build.gradle, modify MainApplication.java by the following

import android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication;
public class MainApplication extends MultiDexApplication implements ReactApplication

3reactions

mikelambertcommented, Oct 10, 2016

So it seems everyone sees this on a rooted Nexus 5 4.4.2 (API level 19), one that has ViewDebug enabled. That seems like quite the awful coincidence, but whomever that rogue user is using all our different apps, I’m not too worried about them anymore. 😃

My guess is that there is some automated system out there running all Android apps in their rooted debug environment, unintentionally breaking when attempting to run our React Native apps. Perhaps it’s used for rendering screenshots, for interacting with apps-in-the-cloud, or maybe a grad student research project, or who knows what else.

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