[CB-12277] Android, "SplashShowOnlyFirstTime"=true, crashes the app after re-opening it

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.1
• Component/s: Ionic
• Labels: android cannot-reproduce triaged

Environment

Windows 7 x64, engine Android 6, ionic CLI 2.1.17, ionic 2 RC4

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Musa Haidari
• Created: 20/Dec/16 05:44
• Updated: 10/Sep/18 17:32
• Resolved: 30/Jul/18 22:23

Description

The app shows the splash screen on start. I want to close it programatically using this.platform.exitApp(); and after opening it again, I want the splash screen to apear again. The default behavoiur is to show the splash screen for the first run only, and if we close it the way mentioned, the subsequent openings will not show the splash screen.

To override that I used <preference name="SplashShowOnlyFirstTime" value="false" />. Using this, the app shows splash screen for the first time and when close the app as mentioned, and try opening it again, while it is still available in recent apps, the app crashes most of the times reporting this in ADB:

12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.mydomain.myapp, PID: 30375
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.widget.ImageView.setAnimation(android.view.animation.Animation)' on a null object reference
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: at org.apache.cordova.splashscreen.SplashScreen$4.run(SplashScreen.java:227)
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: at android.app.Activity.runOnUiThread(Activity.java:6050)
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: at org.apache.cordova.splashscreen.SplashScreen.removeSplashScreen(SplashScreen.java:217)
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: at org.apache.cordova.splashscreen.SplashScreen.access$1000(SplashScreen.java:49)
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: at org.apache.cordova.splashscreen.SplashScreen$5$1.run(SplashScreen.java:330)
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7325)
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1230)
12-20 09:35:50.851 30375 30375 E AndroidRuntime: at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1120)

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CB-13491 NullPointerException in Splash Screen on Android
• is duplicated by: CB-13609 Android Splash Screen error: java.lang.NullPointerException:
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #149