java.lang.SecurityException: invalid package name: com.google.android.gms

Question

I've got this weird stack trace while testing the app on Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-i9100), Android version 4.3. If it helps, Bugsense reports also "log data" = {u'ms_from_start': u'19915', u'rooted': u'true'} , so I'm not quite sure if this device is rooted or not (client is testing the app, not me). EDIT: While I'm typing this, client confirmed me that the device is having custom ROM, if it matters.

Anyhow, this is a complete stack trace:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.mypackagename/com.mypackagename.activities.ARActivity}: 

java.lang.SecurityException: invalid package name: com.google.android.gms
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2355)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2405)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:156)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1272)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5303)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:525)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:739)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:555)
    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: invalid package name: com.google.android.gms
    at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1431)
    at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1385)
    at android.location.ILocationManager$Stub$Proxy.requestLocationUpdates(ILocationManager.java:540)
    at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:836)
    at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:430)
    at android.privacy.surrogate.PrivacyLocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(PrivacyLocationManager.java:290)
    at com.mypackagename.activities.ARActivity.onCreate(ARActivity.java:371)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5259)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1098)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2309)

Now, ARActivity.java:371 is just calling

locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(GPS, gpsRefreshPeriod, 0, locListener);

where

private String GPS = "gps";
private int gpsRefreshPeriod = 500;

and locListener is locationListener.

Now, I have no idea what could go wrong here, and I can't reproduce this error on my testing devices (Samsung Galaxy Tab2, Motorola Atrix 4G, Samsung Note2, Galaxy Nexus).

I guess there could be a check for com.google.android.gms somehow, and maybe there could be Intent (or something) that in case of missing that package, user updates device's component.. But I'm totally not sure if I'm going into the right direction with this thinking.

Any ideas or experience with this crash?

Thanks.

Answer 1

try to use

<uses-library android:name="com.google.android.gms" />

under application tag. Example

<application
    android:icon="@drawable/icon"
    android:label="@string/app_name" >
    <uses-library android:name="com.google.android.gms" />