Android crash: UiAutomation not connected

[mountiny]

Problem

Coming from this Crashlytics record. Occurs in Android 11, Pixel 5

No reproduction steps as of now, just one occurrence but logging this either way.

Why is it important

Prevents the app from crashing

Solution

Investigate where the crash is happening and fix it

Fatal Exception: java.lang.IllegalStateException: UiAutomation not connected, UiAutomation@2a8b373[id=-1, flags=0]
       at android.app.UiAutomation.throwIfNotConnectedLocked(UiAutomation.java:1239)
       at android.app.UiAutomation.getRootInActiveWindow(UiAutomation.java:602)
       at android.support.test.uiautomator.UiDevice.getWindowRoots(UiDevice.java:3)
       at android.support.test.uiautomator.UiDevice.findObjects(UiDevice.java:2)
       at androidx.test.tools.crawler.platform.uiautomator.UiAutomatorUtils.isSoftKeyboardOpen(UiAutomatorUtils.java:1)
       at androidx.test.tools.crawler.platform.hybrid.EspressoUtils.isSoftKeyboardOpen(EspressoUtils.java:7)
       at androidx.test.tools.crawler.platform.hybrid.HybridInteractionController.enterText(HybridInteractionController.java:14)
       at androidx.test.tools.crawler.platform.ActionExecutor.execute(ActionExecutor.java:48)
       at androidx.test.tools.crawler.platform.ActionExecutor.performAction(ActionExecutor.java:4)
       at androidx.test.tools.crawler.platform.RemotePlatform.handlePerformAction(RemotePlatform.java:22)
       at androidx.test.tools.crawler.platform.RemotePlatform.messageLoop(RemotePlatform.java:59)
       at androidx.test.tools.crawler.platform.RemotePlatform.lambda$startCrawlAndWaitUntilFinished$0$androidx-test-tools-crawler-platform-RemotePlatform(RemotePlatform.java:1)
       at androidx.test.tools.crawler.platform.RemotePlatform$$ExternalSyntheticLambda1.run(:6)
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:923)

the full stacktrace is
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[MelvinBot]

Triggered auto assignment to @maddylewis (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[MelvinBot]

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[mountiny]

This might not require any further action if the crash wont be happening again in future @maddylewis

[maddylewis]

got it - ty for the clarification @mountiny

[maddylewis]

ill check to see if the crash is still happening.

[mountiny]

I checked the dashboard just now and I dont think this is happening now. Gonna close this. Thanks @maddylewis !