installed signed apk, but it force closes...please help :-(

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jphoton

installed signed apk, but it force closes...please help :-(

in Android Processing • 4 months ago

I'm using processing 2.0b6

Ok, its been ALOT of work getting to this point so its a extremely disappointing when you finally get the signed apk installed on your phone and it force closes saying "unfortunately <myapp> has stopped".

When I click on "run on device" in the processing IDE, everything works like a charm. So I thought.... time to try and get the signed apk.

I followed these instructions for creating a signed apk (with great difficulty! I might add).

http://www.akeric.com/blog/?p=1352

Initially I had java jdk 7 installed but the signed apk produced refused to install on the phone at all....

so I googled and after a couple of hours found a solution; downgrade java jdk from 7 to 6.

So I did that and everything worked as it was supposed to.... I had finally got my signed apk.

So I installed it on my phone and when I tried to run it, I got the error message "unfortunately <myapp> has stopped".

So I don't even know what question I should be asking except.... "what in the world do I do now?"

I guess the question might be.... what changes between "run on device" and "signed apk" that might cause it to not work anymore. I imagine there are LOADS of things :-s

There's no point spending months creating an app that only I can run. This might just be the one issue that puts me off programming altogether :-s

So please, any help would be much appreciated.

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pauline303

Re: installed signed apk, but it force closes...please help :-(

4 months ago

what does your logcat say about this ?

jphoton

Re: Re: installed signed apk, but it force closes...please help :-(

4 months ago

First time I'm hearing that word..... this will require more googling I suppose... unless you would like to enlighten me on how to get a logcat?

Thanks.

pauline303

Re: installed signed apk, but it force closes...please help :-(

4 months ago

search for monitor in android tools sdk. if you install sdk properly you can type 'monitor' in command prompt, or if path environment variables is not set properly, point to the tools folder and then type 'monitor' (cd …/sdk/tools && monitor).
then you can access logcat report.

jphoton

Re: Re: installed signed apk, but it force closes...please help :-(

4 months ago

Thanks for that, your image is not loading by the way.... but I've got the monitor window you were speaking of. Although, I'm still not sure what I'm looking for.

Here is the image... (if you cant see it try the one in this dropbox link)

Thanks

jphoton

Re: installed signed apk, but it force closes...please help :-(

4 months ago

Furthermore, before your reply I did a bit of googling and tried this method of accessing the logcat:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/general-help-how/141073-learn-logcat-like-pro.html

I tried filtering by priorities but the logcat came up empty each time so I just did in the format where it time stamps everything.

I ran the app a couple of times to try and reproduce the error between 15:15 and 15:16 so I put the log around that time in a text file ( drop box link).

jphoton

Re: installed signed apk, but it force closes...please help :-(

4 months ago

Hey, thanks for trying to help pauline303.

I've just tried resigning it.

And it works :-)

I still have no idea why it didn't work before.... but.. Oh well :-s

By the way, I need people to help me test the app as I only have two phones to test it on; I know it doesn't work on experia x10 mini pro and it works on samsung galaxy s3.

Download the apk file here; dropbox link (if you are happy to install my app that way.... I have no clue how to write malware so I can assure you its safe

)

A description of how to use it can be found here:

nxtcam.blogspot.co.uk

Thanks again for your help pauline303... at least I learned about logcats which I'm sure will be useful in future!!

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