The launcher keeps crashing when searching for an app

[romain030992]

Hi,

The reproducing steps for the crashes are

1. Single tap to open the apps drawer
2. Start typing

The app crashes instantly... It's the same behavior if I try to scroll in the app drawer.

App version 1.17.5 Android 8.1.0 Samsung Note 9

Do nit hesitate if you need more info. I really love this launcher and I would be happy to help !

[markusfisch]

Thanks for filing an issue about this! Very strange! 😳 Unfortunately, I have no idea what's causing this 🙈

Did a previous version work?

[markusfisch]

Hm, I just checked Vitals and saw this exception:

Exception java.lang.RuntimeException: Canvas: trying to draw too large(115605504bytes) bitmap.
  at android.view.DisplayListCanvas.throwIfCannotDraw (DisplayListCanvas.java:229)
  at android.view.RecordingCanvas.drawBitmap (RecordingCanvas.java:97)
  at de.markusfisch.android.pielauncher.widget.AppPieView.drawList (AppPieView.java:1)
  …

android.view.RecordingCanvas is the system screen recorder. Did you try to record the crash or can this be the root cause for the crash? 🤔

[romain030992]

No I didn't try to record the crash Yes it was working in previous versions but I don't know from which version the crash started to occur... I can downgrade step by step to identify the version which introduced the issue if you want

[markusfisch]

Yes, that would be really helpful! 👍

A good start would maybe be 1.17.0, as it's roughly a week since it was released.

[romain030992]

I rollbacked step by step to 1.13.0 and I still have the issue... i have no clue what's happening! Is there anything I can do so you have more logs to investigate ? Maybe it's related to something I did recently on my device but I cant remember something special...

[markusfisch]

Hm, well, you could check the device logs with logcat or Android Studio, if you really want to dive into it. There you will find the exact exception that is crashing the app, which may well be that RuntimeException I posted earlier:

Exception java.lang.RuntimeException: Canvas: trying to draw too large(115605504bytes) bitmap.
  at android.view.DisplayListCanvas.throwIfCannotDraw (DisplayListCanvas.java:229)
  at android.view.RecordingCanvas.drawBitmap (RecordingCanvas.java:97)
  at de.markusfisch.android.pielauncher.widget.AppPieView.drawList (AppPieView.java:1)
  …

If this is indeed the exception, then there must be some kind of screen recording going on, I guess 🤔

Silly question: Have you tried rebooting the device?

[romain030992]

Yes of course I tried to reboot several times but the issue is sill here. Thanks for the exception, I'm going to dive into it further I think.

[romain030992]

Ok it's working now. I fixed the issue! It was related to an application I installed earlier. I did some research related to the exception you described and it appears that it is related to the resources which are in the wrong folder (drawable instead of drawable-xxhdpi. Because the issue happened last week I supposed that I installed an app which was managing its resources wrong. So when I try to go through the apps in the launcher, the app crashes when it tries to display the app. I found the app, removed it and everything works now ! Thanks for your help 🙃

[markusfisch]

Ah, I see! Great find! 👍 And happy you found what was causing the issue!

But the launcher really shouldn't crash for such a misbehaving app, of course, and I will check if I can handle this somehow. May I ask what app it was so I can use it for debugging?

[romain030992]

Indeed it would be better not to crash. The app is "Direct Assurance" (https://www.direct-assurance.fr/nos-services/appli-mobile-direct-assurance)

I noticed there is no issue with the default launcher ans when I navigate through the app from the smartphone settings. Maybe they handle it differently.

[foxjaw]

You can close this issue btw

[markusfisch]

Right 👍

And thanks again @romain030992 for your help!

The size of the icons is now limited, and so this should no longer be possible.