ANR "Input dispatching timed out" in some Android devices make my game crash

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ANR "Input dispatching timed out" in some Android devices make my game crash

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Started 3 years ago by tonidurans
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tonidurans

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Hi everyone ,

I have a game made using Air 18, using Starling 1.6, and it works ok in desktop, ios, and many Android devices. But in Android devices with version 5.0 just when game starts the App freezes/crash. I´ve runned this in debug mode in FlashDevelop, but I can´t see any error, the debugger just disconnect when the app freezes. Taking a look in logcat, I´ve found out that when the app freezes there is an ANR in the log:
```
09-03 10:01:07.681: E/ActivityManager(959): ANR in air.com.company.app (air.com.company.app/.AppEntry)
09-03 10:01:07.681: E/ActivityManager(959): PID: 8832
09-03 10:01:07.681: E/ActivityManager(959): Reason: Input dispatching timed out (Waiting to send non-key event because the touched window has not finished processing certain input events that were delivered to it over 500.0ms ago. Wait queue length: 46. Wait queue head age: 20523.1ms.)
```
I don´t know why it happends only on some devices, I´ve been searching for info about that but nothing found. I´ve also compiled with different Air versions 16,17,18,19b but still the same.

If someone can give a clue, it would be fantastic, right now I´m stuck, I don´t know what to do.

Regards
Posted 3 years ago #
Josh Tynjala

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Start stripping out parts of your app. Go all the way down to the equivalent of an empty project, if you need to. Eventually, it will start working, and you can start putting things back in to narrow down exactly where it's failing.

Posted 3 years ago #
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I solved that compiling with Air16.
Weird things

Posted 3 years ago #
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Same problem here started occurring in my app once I've decided to use TextInput with softkeyboardtype. No matter Air version: 20 or 21 release.

There's something going on once softkeyboard is up. I can't figure out what specific user interaction leads to this error.

ANR Input dispatching timed out (Waiting to send key event because the focus....

Full Stack Trace:
java.lang.NullPointerException
com.adobe.air.AIRWindowSurfaceView.onKeyUp(AIRWindowSurfaceView.java:393)
android.view.KeyEvent.dispatch(KeyEvent.java:2650)
android.view.View.dispatchKeyEvent(View.java:8434)
android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:1524)
android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:1524)
android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:1524)
android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchKeyEvent(ViewGroup.java:1524)
com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView.superDispatchKeyEvent(PhoneWindow.java:2441)
com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.superDispatchKeyEvent(PhoneWindow.java:1762)

From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4234334/android-key-dispatching-timed-out

One common cause of the "Key dispatching timed out", which I experienced quite often until digging a little deeper, is holding onto the UI thread - which handles UI events - in the debugger for more than a short amount of time (details below). For instance, if you want to debug code in your event handler, this is potential problem.

Posted 2 years ago #
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Well our users are getting the issue even if our app doesn't use the softkeyboard.. Damn bug has been around since AIR 3.7! We're moving on to AIR 23 now..

Posted 2 years ago #
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If that doesn't solve it, definitely open up a bug report on bugbase.adobe.com and post the link here, so that we can vote for it!

Posted 2 years ago #
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I have this problem in all my apps.. and ihave no idea where to look at, anybody found a solution ?

Posted 1 year ago #
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We can see it too in GP log... I've just submitted a report, but don't think it would help as it will be hard to reproduce it not talking about fixing it.

https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/AIR-4198519

Posted 1 year ago #
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I recommend someone creates an issue on our Adobe-Runtime-Support issue tracker, and as many developers as possible add their data to the thread (statistics from the Google logs, etc). When enough developers report their problems, I'm sure we can get Adobe spend some time looking into this!

It's popped up several times here and there in the past, so it does seem to be an issue.

It would be great if anyone who actually has some data could start this and post the link here — thanks a lot in advance!!

Posted 1 year ago #
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See also: https://forum.starling-framework.org/topic/anr-input-dispatching-timed-out-in-some-android-devices-make-my-game-crash

Posted 1 year ago #
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As I've reported over there, the ANR/crash rate has significantly decreased since Air 27

Posted 1 year ago #
Christian

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@Oldes, just voted on your issue, we are experiencing the exact same thing. @skol thanks for sharing the info, we will try to upgrade to Air 27 to see if there are improvements on our end as well.

Posted 1 year ago #
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After updating from AIR29 to AIR31 I see a significant increase in this ANRs. Has anyone solved this yet?

Posted 1 month ago #
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Hi,

Any news?

Posted 2 weeks ago #
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Apparently, the latest AIR beta version (32.0.0.100) seems to look promising so far! Check out this post (and a few above it) for details.

Posted 2 weeks ago #
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Thank you Daniel,

I have upgrade to 32.0.0.100, so far no ANR.
Wow thats amazing!

Hope it will stay that way, i will update here and on git if there will be any change.

Posted 1 week ago #

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