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| if (ex instanceof NullPointerException && Build.VERSION.SDK_INT > Build.VERSION_CODES.P) { | ||
| // Re-throw above API 28, since the NPE is fixed in API 29: | ||
| // https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/140ff5ea8e2d99edc3fbe63a43239e459334c76b | ||
| throw ex; |
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Is the intent to notify the developers of the exception during development? Interesting to see a pattern where we throw and exception in a catch module.
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Copy of #4184 due to CLA issues (Jeremy leaving).
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Let's take a look at Android's source code, in android.view.View.
The exception was thrown from
findFrameMetricsObserver, insideremoveFrameMetricsListenerSince this null check didn't exists, this triggers NPE when
mFrameMetricsObserveris uninitialized. Jeremy found that this was fixed in later Android versions. Why then, ismFrameMetricsObserveruninitialized? It's becauseaddFrameMetricsListenerfails silently!Conclusion
So overall, this is the same issue caused by the view not being hardware-accelerated. The correct error message is hidden away because
addFrameMetricsListenerfails silently, that's why we should catch them both and use the same error message. The developer's provided crash versions also lines up with when Android fixed it: the above reference fix was made in 2019, and Android 7, 8, 9 are all before 2019, with Android 10 releasing in 2019 thus fixing the issue. There is no crash before Android 7 because as Rosario pointed out, FrameMetrics was added in Android 7 (API 24).