Xowa App does not start on Android 9

AaronSchulz commented 5 years ago

Everytime I start the app (even after clearing all data) I get:

Package: org.xowa Version Code: 175 Version Name: 2.1.175-r-2018-01-05 Android: 9 Manufacturer: Samsung Model: SGH-M919 CrashReporter Key: E09FCAA4-6DB8-D2C9-EC23-B6B5D4D08AE269C87688 Date: Sat Aug 24 14:15:19 PDT 2019

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{org.xowa/org.wikipedia.page.PageActivity}: gplx.Err: cfg.missing: grp=xowa.bldr.session key=wiki_domain at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2951) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3086) at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:78) at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:108) at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:68) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1816) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6718) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:858) Caused by: gplx.Err: cfg.missing: grp=xowa.bldr.session key=wikidomain at gplx.Err.new_wotype(Err.java:8) at gplx.dbs.cfgs.Db_cfg_tbl.Select_str(Db_cfg_tbl.java:91) at gplx.dbs.cfgs.Db_cfg_tbl.Select_bry(Db_cfg_tbl.java:80) at gplx.xowa.wikis.Xoa_wikimgr.Import_by_url(Xoa_wikimgr.java:8) at gplx.xowa.apps.Xoav_wiki_mgr.Import_by_url(Xoav_wiki_mgr.java:19) at gplx.xowa.drds.Xod_app_mgr.Load_wiki_by_url(Xod_app_mgr.java:221) at gplx.xowa.drds.Xod_app_mgr.Boot(Xod_app_mgr.java:166) at gplx.xowa.drds.Xod_app_mgr.Wikis_installed_count(Xod_app_mgr.java:194) at org.wikipedia.page.PageActivity.handleIntent(PageActivity.java:452) at org.wikipedia.page.PageActivity.onCreate(PageActivity.java:280) at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7144) at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7135) at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1271) at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2931) ... 11 more Description: {}

gnosygnu commented 5 years ago

Hi! Thanks for filing the issue, as well as the stack trace

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to reproduce the error. More details below. I'm not sure why though it's possible it can be device related.

Just to ask, is this a standard installation? Specifically:

Stock Samsung Galaxy S4 device
XOWA app installed from Google Play (last updated 2018-01)
Gave permission to XOWA for accessing Photos / Videos (Filesystem permissions)

If so, then I'll try:

To get a Samsung Galaxy S4 and reproduce
Faling that, build another apk with more logging around the boot location and see if you can give it a try

Hope that works for you. Thanks!

It looks like your device is a Samsung Galaxy S4 (based on SGH-M919). For what it's worth, my device is a Samsung S8+ on Android 9 (Pie)

I uninstalled the XOWA app on my phone, and then downloaded the version from Google Play. I was able to open it on my side.

The call stack is a bit weird as it's failing to load configuration settings which comes from a database distributed with the apk.

AaronSchulz commented 5 years ago

It has LineageOS 16 (20190820-NIGHTLY-jfltexx). It worked before when I was on 14.1.

It's the regular APK from the play store (Jan 2018) and has the SD card permission (Samsung Evo 256GB, much faster than my old 200GB PNY).

gnosygnu commented 5 years ago

It has LineageOS 16 (20190820-NIGHTLY-jfltexx). It worked before when I was on 14.1.

Cool. Thanks for the follow-up . At this point, let me look at getting a budget Android device and installing LineageOS + Android 9 on it. This will probably take a week or two, so sorry for the delay

AaronSchulz commented 4 years ago

My new Galaxy A20 with stock android 9 (plus stock Samsung stuff) does not seem to have this problem. The file browser also seems to actually work on that phone as well...import from my PC was just copy/paste/open.

flying-frigate-technologies commented 4 years ago

Having a nearly identical issue on a stock Android 9 Nokia 2.3. (side note: I am setting up instructions for users of my Wiki to access it offline. Is there any fundraiser/kickstarter you would like me to point iPhone users to?)

gnosygnu commented 4 years ago

Sorry for the delay. I've moved this issue back to TODO, especially as I'm planning to refresh the Android version for #708

gnosygnu commented 4 years ago

Just a status report. I looked at this over the weekend, and am having build issues with the code base, primarily due to changes in Android Studio. I'm going to explore re-building with the latest Wikipedia Android app code-base, or trying to force something with the current XOWA version.

I'll work on this throughout the week, and report back next weekend.

gnosygnu commented 4 years ago

Another status report. I looked at the latest Wikimedia Android version, and there will be a lot of rewriting (the core PageLoadStrategy went away)

I'll take a look at doing an intermediary release with the old XOWA app version for debugging purposes. But the next official XOWA Android release may become a large-scale issue to upgrade to the latest Wikimedia App, which has been partially forced due to (a) Android Studio (b) Java 8 and (c) Google Play policies

gollum-z commented 3 years ago

Hello, I have the same problem on my Fairphone 2. I recently updated to Android 9 (i.e. FairphoneOpen 21.03.0-rel2) and now the app shows almost the same error on start and won’t launch. On the previous system version (7.1.2) it worked fine.

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Xowa App does not start on Android 9 #558