AdView Causing Chrome Crash?

Question

I have an adview in one of my activitites. When I go to this activity, I get a dialog on the emulator telling me Chrome has stopped and the ad doesn't show anything.

I've checked over the code itself and I'm fairly sure it matches what it should -

Activity.xml

<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
            android:id="@+id/adView"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            ads:adSize="BANNER"
            ads:adUnitId="@string/banner_ad_unit_id"></com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView>

Activity.java

mAdView = (AdView) findViewById(R.id.adView);
        AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder().build();
        mAdView.loadAd(adRequest);

Here is the logcat -

09-08 09:26:47.779 5777-5777/? D/EGL_emulation: eglCreateContext: 0x872ca5e0: maj 2 min 0 rcv 2
09-08 09:26:47.783 5777-5777/? D/EGL_emulation: eglMakeCurrent: 0x872ca5e0: ver 2 0 (tinfo 0x8379e7b0)
09-08 09:26:47.784 5892-5892/? E/asset: setgid: Operation not permitted
09-08 09:26:47.795 5878-5878/? W/ResourceType: Entry identifier 0xc is larger than entry count 0x8
09-08 09:26:47.795 5878-5878/? D/AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
09-08 09:26:47.795 5878-5878/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
                                                 Process: com.android.chrome:sandboxed_process0, PID: 5878
                                                 android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Array resource ID #0x7f03000c
                                                     at android.content.res.Resources.obtainTypedArray(Resources.java:617)
                                                     at android.content.res.Resources.preloadFonts(Resources.java:379)
                                                     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:5815)
                                                     at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap1(Unknown Source:0)
                                                     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1661)
                                                     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:105)
                                                     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
                                                     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6541)
                                                     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
                                                     at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
                                                     at com.android.internal.os.WebViewZygoteInit.main(WebViewZygoteInit.java:121)
09-08 09:26:47.799 1584-1600/? I/ActivityManager: Showing crash dialog for package com.androidandyuk.autobuddy u0
09-08 09:26:47.825 1357-1357/? D/gralloc_ranchu: gralloc_alloc: Creating ashmem region of size 4096
09-08 09:26:47.826 1584-2280/? I/OpenGLRenderer: Initialized EGL, version 1.4
09-08 09:26:47.826 1584-2280/? D/OpenGLRenderer: Swap behavior 1
09-08 09:26:47.826 1584-2280/? W/OpenGLRenderer: Failed to choose config with EGL_SWAP_BEHAVIOR_PRESERVED, retrying without...
09-08 09:26:47.826 1584-2280/? D/OpenGLRenderer: Swap behavior 0
09-08 09:26:47.842 1357-1357/? D/gralloc_ranchu: gralloc_alloc: Creating ashmem region of size 4096
09-08 09:26:47.842 1584-2280/? D/EGL_emulation: eglCreateContext: 0xa44a4be0: maj 2 min 0 rcv 2
09-08 09:26:47.848 1357-1357/? D/gralloc_ranchu: gralloc_alloc: Creating ashmem region of size 4096
09-08 09:26:47.849 1584-2280/? D/EGL_emulation: eglMakeCurrent: 0xa44a4be0: ver 2 0 (tinfo 

On my Pixel XL, it doesn't crash, but no ad is shown, so I guess something isn't right?

Answer 1

We had the same crash in our app. A temporary solution was to disable the use of the preloaded_fonts tag in AndroidManifest.xml.