Appreciate any feedback on my 1st Android App - not in Google Play store yet, but here is an APK to load from your Android device. I have only run it on a Nexus 7 so far. The IOS version has been in the Apple App store for about 7 months, and want to get this out in the Play store as soon as I can get some feedback. Features: - SouthCarolina Sportsman will be a free app for hunters/fisherman - AdMob HouseAds as a revenue source - Use Google maps API (see under Land and elsewhere) Thanks https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6320108/AndroidAPKsToshare/SCSportsman_debug.apk

I have installed it and it ran for about five seconds, enough to see the main menu and ads. After I tapped the first option in the menu, the app collapsed and sent the famous message "Unfortunately, ... has stopped". After I reinstalled it, the situation was no better.

Hi there - pretty much same result as Dusko. Samsung S3 running Android 4.3. Title loads, displays add on bottom. Selection of any of the menu items results in an app crash. Restarting App has no effect after this - although clear App cache/data (rather than uninstall/reinstall) will restart it - but with same error. Hooked up my device to Eclipse to view logcat information and it is crashing out with a Memory error. Post small log showing error onto dropbox for you (link below): https://www.dropbox.com/s/6hd5pacg2vij2f5/log_1.txt?dl=0

I just found www.appthwack.com, which does automated testing. I just ran my first test on the top-25 Android devices, and it failed on 11 of them. The others were all successful, but the 11 all failed with OOM error. This is great service, it gives a full logcat from each failed device, so hopefully I can figure it out. Thanks so much for the quick response! Here is a ZIP file with all the output from the 11 failed devices from APPTHWACK, if anyone is interested in seeing what this testing service provides. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6320108/AndroidAPKsToshare/results_for_117841.zip

Also worth a note that the App permissions seem a little overkill - I would not be happy with "Modify contacts, Read Call log, Read contacts, write call log"; would deter me from installing in the first instance.

I agree, but I didn't set that intentionally. Is that something I modify in Android Studio?

>Is that something I modify in Android Studio? It is in the AndroidManifest.xml file. It is a text file, so you can edit it with Android Studio, Eclipse, or any other "notepad" type of program. The required lines come below this line: <!-- required device permissions --> For instance, I am now looking at a manifest file that has, amongst others, the following three lines: <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" /> If you erase the first line, your app would have no Internet access, and so on. The goal is to have the lowest number of permissions, while the app is still running to its fullest.

Dang! AppThwack is very cool! Nice find! Post your LogCat here and we can help you out. Mark

App thwack is cool.thanks for sharing! I ran the app and it didn't crash on any screens.it just crashed when I left the app with back button

Here is a ZIP file with all the output from the 11 failed devices from APPTHWACK, if anyone is interested in seeing what this testing service provides. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6320108/AndroidAPKsToshare/results_for_117841.zip And here is a snippet from the Samsung Galaxy Nexus logcat: Error "2015-02-18 18:42:09.737933" 10107 AndroidRuntime "FATAL EXCEPTION: Thread-427" 10244 612 Error "2015-02-18 18:42:09.737933" 10107 AndroidRuntime java.lang.OutOfMemoryError 10244 613 Error "2015-02-18 18:42:09.737933" 10107 AndroidRuntime " at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.nativeDecodeStream(Native Method)" 10244 614 Error "2015-02-18 18:42:09.737933" 10107 AndroidRuntime " at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeStream(BitmapFactory.java:530)" 10244 615 Error "2015-02-18 18:42:09.737933" 10107 AndroidRuntime " at android.graphics.BitmapFactory.decodeResourceStream(BitmapFactory.java:356)" 10244 616 Error "2015-02-18 18:42:09.737933" 10107 AndroidRuntime " at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromResourceStream(Drawable.java:800)" 10244 617 Error "2015-02-18 18:42:09.737933" 10107 AndroidRuntime " at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromStream(Drawable.java:751)" 10244 618 Error "2015-02-18 18:42:09.737933" 10107 AndroidRuntime " at com.scsportsmanandroid.BT_fileManager.getDrawableFromCache(BT_fileManager.java:293)" 10244 619 Error "2015-02-18 18:42:09.737933" 10107 AndroidRuntime " at com.scsportsmanandroid.BT_viewUtilities$BackgroundImageThread.run(BT_viewUtilities.java:185)" 10244 620 Warning "2015-02-18 18:42:09.745933" 10107 "ZZ " "WB_screen_menuImage:HeaderImageSize is Large" 10107 621 Warning "2015-02-18 18:42:09.745933" 10107 "ZZ " "BT_strings:getSaveAsFileNameFromURL from: ""https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6320108/NCHunting/dadandson_logo_and_title.png"" file name: ""dadandson_logo_and_title.png""" 10107 622 Warning "2015-02-18 18:42:09.745933" 10107 "ZZ " "WB_screen_menuImage: checking cache for header image: ""dadandson_logo_and_title.png""" 10107 623 Warning "2015-02-18 18:42:09.745933" 10107 "ZZ " "WB_screen_menuImage: header image exists in the cache: ""dadandson_logo_and_title.png""" 10107 624 Warning "2015-02-18 18:42:09.745933" 10107 dalvikvm "threadid=29: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x419c2700)" 10245 625 Info "2015-02-18 18:42:09.745933" 10107 "Process " "Sending signal. PID: 10107 SIG: 9" 10245 626 Warning "2015-02-18 18:42:09.753933" 385 ActivityManager "Error in app com.scsportsmanandroid3 running instrumentation ComponentInfo{com.appthwack.gltest/com.appthwack.gltest.AppThwackInstrumentationTestRunner}:" 385 627 Warning "2015-02-18 18:42:09.753933" 385 ActivityManager " java.lang.OutOfMemoryError" 385 628 Debug "2015-02-18 18:42:09.753933" 10093 AndroidRuntime "Shutting down VM" 10093 629 Warning "2015-02-18 18:42:09.753933" 385 ActivityManager " java.lang.OutOfMemoryError" 385 630 Debug "2015-02-18 18:42:09.761933" 10093 dalvikvm "GC_CONCURRENT freed 98K, 18% free 482K/584K, paused 1ms+1ms, total 3ms" 10101 631 Info "2015-02-18 18:42:09.800933" 385 WindowState "WIN DEATH: Window{4279f610 u0 com.scsportsmanandroid3/com.scsportsmanandroid.BT_activity_start}" 696 632 Info "2015-02-18 18:42:09.800933" 385 WindowState "WIN DEATH: Window{430b5a98 u0 com.scsportsmanandroid3/com.scsportsmanandroid.BT_activity_host}" 694 633 Warning "2015-02-18 18:42:09.808933" 385 InputDispatcher "channel '42b11180 PopupWindow:4753fed0 (server)' ~ Consumer closed input channel or an error occurred. events=0x9" 438 634 Error "2015-02-18 18:42:09.808933" 385 InputDispatcher "channel '42b11180 PopupWindow:4753fed0 (server)' ~ Channel is unrecoverably broken and will be disposed!" 438 635 Warning "2015-02-18 18:42:09.808933" 385 InputDispatcher "Attempted to unregister already unregistered input channel '42b11180 PopupWindow:4753fed0 (server)'" 395 636 Info "2015-02-18 18:42:09.808933" 385 WindowState "WIN DEATH: Window{42b11180 u0 PopupWindow:4753fed0}" 395 637 Info "2015-02-18 18:42:09.995933" 385 ActivityManager "Force stopping package com.scsportsmanandroid3 appid=10064 user=0" 385 638 Info "2015-02-18 18:42:09.995933" 385 ActivityManager "Killing proc 10107:com.scsportsmanandroid3/u0a10064: force stop com.scsportsmanandroid3" 385 639 Warning "2015-02-18 18:42:10.003933" 385 ActivityManager "Force removing ActivityRecord{42a054a8 u0 com.scsportsmanandroid3/com.scsportsmanandroid.BT_activity_host}: app died, no saved state" 385 640 Info "2015-02-18 18:42:10.003933" 385 ActivityManager " Force finishing activity ActivityRecord{427bf6d8 u0 com.scsportsmanandroid3/com.scsportsmanandroid.BT_activity_host}" 385 641 Warning "2015-02-18 18:42:10.112933" 385 InputMethodManagerService "Got RemoteException sending setActive(false) notification to pid 10107 uid 10064" 700 642 Info "2015-02-18 18:42:10.448933" 385 ActivityManager "Config changes=1400 {1.0 999mcc?mnc en_US ldltr sw360dp w360dp h567dp 320dpi nrml port finger -keyb/v/h -nav/h s.18}" 399 643

I was going to suggest that the dadandson_logo_and_title.png file was to big, but upon inspection, it appears to be only 117Kb, which is pretty small. Something appears to be consuming a lot of memory. Are all your images optimized for small file sizes? Mark

Your problem sounds like a problem I had. I did an app a year ago that crashed all the time on certain Samsung devices, but fine on everything else. When I downgraded it to BT 2.x, it was fine. I recently started working on it again with BT3.0 - same problem, until I added this statement to my manifest file android:largeHeap="true" Give it a try and lets test again? Alan

I will double check and minimize the size of my images. I've noticed something alarming. In Android, you can see the cached background processes of apps (settings, apps, Running- show cached procces), and upon initial load, this app is consuming 68MB. Then, all I do is navigate into a menu, and then back to the home screen, and the cached process size grows a bit. Back into a menu, back home, and it keeps growing.

Thanks AlanMac, will give that a try to. The testing service (appthwack) showed that it failed on 11 devices (Amazon Kindle, (2) Asus Nexus, 4 HTC, 6 Samsung and 2 Sony. All of their logcats showed the same memory error so I suspect if I fix it once, it should improve on all...wishful thinking!

Maybe this will help. http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2015/02/18/facebook-releases-stetho-powerful-debugging-tool-android/

I had a graphic cause a error similar to this on certain devices, I ended up opening up the original and resaving, would give me memory error everytime.

This seems really good app...Likewise there is also a app by SIMpalm : http://www.simpalm.com/applications/taptin