Unsatisfied Link Error - OpenCV for Android Non-native

Question

A few days ago I asked about an UnsatisfiedLinkError from running non-native OpenCV code. I thought the problem was solved after reinstalling Eclipse and closing/reopening all the packages, but it's back again after I put the OpenCV code into the existing onCreate() method.

I created a new Android application with an activity called Start. I then went to project properties and added OpenCV as a library. Here's the code for the activity (Start.java):

package com.test;

import org.opencv.core.Mat;
import org.opencv.highgui.Highgui;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.view.Menu;

public class Start extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_start);

        Mat Image = Highgui.imread("/image.jpg");
        if (Image == null) {
            AlertDialog ad = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).create(); 
            ad.setMessage("Fatal error: can't open /image.jpg!");  
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_start, menu);
        return true;
    }
}

And here's the log:

08-13 12:26:14.791: E/Trace(1067): error opening trace file: No such file or directory (2)
08-13 12:26:15.191: W/dalvikvm(1067): No implementation found for native Lorg/opencv/highgui/Highgui;.imread_1:(Ljava/lang/String;)J
08-13 12:26:15.191: D/AndroidRuntime(1067): Shutting down VM
08-13 12:26:15.191: W/dalvikvm(1067): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40a13300)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067): java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Native method not found: org.opencv.highgui.Highgui.imread_1:(Ljava/lang/String;)J
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at org.opencv.highgui.Highgui.imread_1(Native Method)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at org.opencv.highgui.Highgui.imread(Highgui.java:324)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at com.test.Start.onCreate(Start.java:18)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5008)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1079)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2023)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2084)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:130)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1195)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4745)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:786)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:553)
08-13 12:26:15.201: E/AndroidRuntime(1067):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Again, this is non-native code, so having an Unsatisfied Link Error doesn't make much sense.

Answer 1

After a bunch of searching, I found this:

"3. If your application project doesn’t have a JNI part, just copy the corresponding OpenCV native libs from /sdk/native/libs/ to your project directory to folder libs/."

So that means copy the \armeabi, \armeabi-v7a, and \x86 folders.

"4. The last step of enabling OpenCV in your application is Java initialization code before call to OpenCV API. It can be done, for example, in the static section of the Activity class, which gets executed only once, before any instance of the class is created:

static {
    if (!OpenCVLoader.initDebug()) {
        // Handle initialization error
    }
}

Alternatively, you can put it inside the onCreate method:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_load_image);
    if (!OpenCVLoader.initDebug()) {
        // Handle initialization error
    }
    [...]
}

Now it works!

Answer 2

you should use

if (!OpenCVLoader.initAsync(OpenCVLoader.OPENCV_VERSION_2_4_2, this, mOpenCVCallBack))
{
    Log.e("TEST", "Cannot connect to OpenCV Manager");
}

in OnCreate() And use

private BaseLoaderCallback  mOpenCVCallBack = new BaseLoaderCallback(this) {
    @Override
    public void onManagerConnected(int status) {
        switch (status) {
                case LoaderCallbackInterface.SUCCESS:
                {
                               Mat Image = Highgui.imread("/image.jpg");
                               if (Image == null) {
                                   AlertDialog ad = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).create(); 
                                   ad.setMessage("Fatal error: can't open /image.jpg!");  
                                }
                } break;
                default:
                {
                    super.onManagerConnected(status);
                } break;
            }
    }
    };

Answer 3

In most situations, a line like this before calling openCV is enough: "System.loadLibrary(Core.NATIVE_LIBRARY_NAME);"