Phonegap error on Android GetPTLAFormat

Question

We are developing an app using jQuery mobile and phone gap. Everything seems to be working fine but when running the app on a connected Android phone we see tons of errors like this in the Eclipse logcat

:0: GetPTLAFormat: invalid format

Any idea what this is or how to resolve it?

Answer 1

I believe it has something to do with a new standard for disabling auto events. There is a similar question about Embedding iframes where they are having an issue with auto-playing videos.

I have had the same issue with a jquerymobile cordova app. My index page is a splash page and when cordova has successfully loaded it navigates to my main application page. I was using jQuery.mobile.navigate(myPage);. This gave me about 20 :0: GetPTLAFormat: invalid format errors. I tried jQuery.mobile.changePage instead and got only 3 errors.

As the page transition happens without any input from the user I tried giving my splash screen image an onclick even to transition instead. Not very practical for the final application, but just as a test. I still get the errors with navigate, however with an onclick and changePage I do not get any errors.

My conclusion is that the new standard doesn't allow automatic playing and transitioning etc. I still haven't figured out a way to get around this but the solution seems to be to have a user trigger the event and it solves the problem.