Android UrbanAirship Crash in takeOff

Question

Hello I hope someone can help me here.

I´m working on an application which uses UrbanAirship to receive PushNotifications.

My Problem is that, since this morning, my app crashes when initializing UrbanAirship with takeOff.

I´m using Android Studio v2.1.1(stable) and updated my Build and Platform-Tools to use the most current version(s). After the crash occurred I tested if it is caused by the new Tools by using an older Version of these Tools and different Android Studio versions (2.0, 1.3 and 1.5). So I´m sure that should not be the Problem.

Here is the Code I´m using and the Stack Trace from my LogCat:

UAirship.takeOff(this, Config.getOptions(), mAirshipReadyCallback);

getOptions returns the following:

public static AirshipConfigOptions getOptions() {
    return new AirshipConfigOptions.Builder()
        .setDevelopmentAppKey("Key")
        .setDevelopmentAppSecret("Secret")
        .setProductionAppKey("Key")
        .setProductionAppSecret("Secret")
        .setInProduction(!BuildConfig.DEBUG)
        .setGcmSender("Sender")
        .setProductionLogLevel(3).build();
}

And my Callback is the following:

private UAirship.OnReadyCallback mAirshipReadyCallback = new UAirship.OnReadyCallback() {
        @Override
        public void onAirshipReady(UAirship uAirship) {
            DefaultNotificationFactory notificationFactory;
            notificationFactory = new DefaultNotificationFactory(getApplicationContext());

            notificationFactory.setSmallIconId(R.drawable.ic_push);
            notificationFactory.setLargeIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher);
            try {
                if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
                    notificationFactory.setColor(getColor(R.color.main_list_item_text_enabled));
                } else {
                    notificationFactory.setColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.main_list_item_text_enabled));
                }
            } catch (Resources.NotFoundException ex) {
                Timber.e(ex.getCause(), ex.getMessage());
                notificationFactory.setColor(Color.parseColor("0e457e"));
            }

            // Enable user notifications
            Timber.i("Enable Airship!");
            Timber.i("UAirship ChannelId: " + UAirship.shared().getPushManager().getChannelId());
            uAirship.getPushManager().setNotificationFactory(notificationFactory);
            uAirship.getPushManager().setUserNotificationsEnabled(true);
        }
    };

Finally the StackTrace:

java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: The method 'java.io.File android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat.getNoBackupFilesDir(android.content.Context)' was expected to be of type virtual but instead was found to be of type direct (declaration of 'java.lang.reflect.ArtMethod' appears in /system/framework/core-libart.jar)
at com.google.android.gms.iid.zzd.zzeb(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.iid.zzd.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.iid.zzd.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.iid.InstanceID.zza(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.iid.InstanceID.getInstance(Unknown Source)
at com.urbanairship.push.GcmRegistrar.register(GcmRegistrar.java:62)
at com.urbanairship.push.ChannelServiceDelegate.onUpdatePushRegistration(ChannelServiceDelegate.java:174)
at com.urbanairship.push.ChannelServiceDelegate.onHandleIntent(ChannelServiceDelegate.java:110)
at com.urbanairship.BaseIntentService.onHandleIntent(BaseIntentService.java:103)
at android.app.IntentService$ServiceHandler.handleMessage(IntentService.java:65)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)

Yesterday everything worked fine and I did not update any libraries I´m using.

Thank you in advance, greetings :)

Edit

Here are my gradle dependencies:

dependencies {

compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar', '*.aar'])
repositories {
    mavenCentral()

    flatDir {
        dirs 'libs'
    }

    maven { url 'https://repo.commonsware.com.s3.amazonaws.com' }
    maven { url 'https://urbanairship.bintray.com/android' }
    maven { url 'https://download.01.org/crosswalk/releases/crosswalk/android/maven2' }
}

    compile('com.urbanairship.android:urbanairship-sdk:7.1.3') {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.support', module: 'support-v4'
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms', module: 'play-services-gcm'
        transitive = true
}

compile('de.keyboardsurfer.android.widget:crouton:1.8.5@aar') {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.support', module: 'support-v4'
    transitive = true
}

compile('com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.8.1') {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.support', module: 'support-v4'
}
compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.3.0'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.3.0'
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit:retrofit:2.0.0-beta2'
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit:converter-gson:2.0.0-beta2'
compile 'com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.5.0'
compile 'com.squareup.okhttp:logging-interceptor:2.6.0'
compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.4'
compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:5.1.1'
compile 'com.jakewharton.timber:timber:4.1.1'
compile 'commons-io:commons-io:2.4'
compile 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.4'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:8.4.0'
compile('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.5.2@aar') {
    transitive = true;
}

compile 'org.xwalk:xwalk_core_library:16.45.421.19'
compile 'com.amplitude:android-sdk:2.5.0'

}

Edit 2

I also tried to use the UrbanAirship-SDK Version 6.4.1 without excluding google.gms and the android support libraries, without any effect.

Furthermore I updated every possible dependency inside my gradle use the newest version (just the changed):

compile'com.urbanairship.android:urbanairship-sdk:7.1.3'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.0.0'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.4.0'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.4.0'

still no change

Can you please add your Gradle file. I think you are using old play service library in the dependency section under build.gradle. — Nithinjith
@Nithinjith I updated all dependencies to match the newest versions. So the play service libraries are now v 9.0.0 but the Exception is still thrown — Koerfer_P
You should avoid posting your app credentials and sender Id. Please edit your question and remove those. — ralepinski

Koerfer_P Koerfer_P · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-20T08:13:08

As @ralepinski pointed out. The sample app of UA was working like expected. So I dug deeper into the usage of libraries and gradle and found out, that this Issue was caused by the internal usage of

'com.android.support:support-v4:23.4.0'
'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.4.0'

Some of the used plugins use these libraries as well and the conflict was in the usage of different versions of these libraries. I solved this issue by using the force command inside the gradle (see below):

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy {
        force 'com.android.support:design:23.4.0'
        force 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.4.0'
        force 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.4.0'
    }
}

I´d like to thank you all for your help and I upvotet @ralepinskis answer which gave the hint to look at the sample project. I do not have enough reputation now but when I have the upvote should be added automatically.

:)

Android UrbanAirship Crash in takeOff

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