Latest app crashing on Android 12 [solved]
Posted: May 5th, 2022, 12:04 am
We've received a few crash reports in the last few days since our latest app update came out.
We're really sorry if you're affected!
There seem to be some undocumented changes regarding the permissions, that we hadn't run into until now. It seems that the previous app release wasn't affected even when upgrading to Android 12. For some reason, Android has new requirements for permissions for the latest App release, even though we made no changes that could explain them. Of course we normally request those permissions from you if they haven't been granted, but the change that was made with Android 12 causes a new exception that we simply haven't handled yet, because we didn't know about it. We've already implemented gracefully handling this exception since receiving some crash reports. We’ve prepared a release today that should become public in the next few days.
But you don't have to wait for the next update: You can get around the issue by giving the Unleashed app the permissions manually in the system preferences:
The Unleashed app needs LOCATION and NEARBY DEVICES permission to be able to connect or scan. This should solve the crashes!
We're really sorry if you're affected!
There seem to be some undocumented changes regarding the permissions, that we hadn't run into until now. It seems that the previous app release wasn't affected even when upgrading to Android 12. For some reason, Android has new requirements for permissions for the latest App release, even though we made no changes that could explain them. Of course we normally request those permissions from you if they haven't been granted, but the change that was made with Android 12 causes a new exception that we simply haven't handled yet, because we didn't know about it. We've already implemented gracefully handling this exception since receiving some crash reports. We’ve prepared a release today that should become public in the next few days.
But you don't have to wait for the next update: You can get around the issue by giving the Unleashed app the permissions manually in the system preferences:
The Unleashed app needs LOCATION and NEARBY DEVICES permission to be able to connect or scan. This should solve the crashes!