SecurityException: Parcel.readException coming from google analytics code

Question

Our app is getting quite a few different SecurityException reports from our crash report software. Here is a stacktrace of the crash:

java.lang.SecurityException: Unable to find app for caller android.app.ApplicationThreadProxy@43fda840 (pid=17925) when registering receiver android.content.IIntentReceiver$Stub$Proxy@43fd9458
     at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1431)
     at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1385)
     at android.app.ActivityManagerProxy.registerReceiver(ActivityManagerNative.java:2466)
     at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiverInternal(ContextImpl.java:1717)
     at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiver(ContextImpl.java:1685)
     at android.app.ContextImpl.registerReceiver(ContextImpl.java:1679)
     at android.content.ContextWrapper.registerReceiver(ContextWrapper.java:453)
     at com.google.android.gms.analytics.q.v(Unknown Source)
     at com.google.android.gms.analytics.r.cF(Unknown Source)
     at com.google.android.gms.analytics.r.cH(Unknown Source)
     at com.google.android.gms.analytics.s.cO(Unknown Source)
     at com.google.android.gms.analytics.s.cP(Unknown Source)
     at com.google.android.gms.analytics.s.d(Unknown Source)
     at com.google.android.gms.analytics.s$e.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.util.Timer$TimerImpl.run(Timer.java:284)

The stack trace is always the same, except the only thing that seems to change is android.app.ApplicationThreadProxy@41da9030 (pid=9103) and android.content.IIntentReceiver$Stub$Proxy@41ee0688 have different numbers on them (is this thread id's or something?)

Now this exception seems to be linked to intent size (see the following links)

• stackoverflow post
• another stackoverflow post
• see the comment on this question
• see b0bs reply here

Is this the only cause? If so how is my code causing this when it seems to only come from google analytics code? Am I using GA wrong? I don't seem to be doing much besides making a tracker.

EDIT

This is how I am creating my tracker. I have a singleton tracker in my application object

Tracker appTracker;
synchronized Tracker getTracker()
{
    GoogleAnalytics analytics = GoogleAnalytics.getInstance(this);
    if (appTracker == null)
    {
        appTracker = analytics.newTracker([some key]);
        appTracker.enableAdvertisingIdCollection(true);
        analytics.getLogger().setLogLevel(Logger.LogLevel.VERBOSE);
    }


    return appTracker;
}

Then in my BaseActivity I have the following code:

public void initAnalytics() {

    if (Global.TRACKING_ENABLED) {
        mTracker = app.getTracker();
    }
}

public void sendCommerceData(Map<String, String> params)
{
    mTracker.send(params);
}

public void sendTrackViewData(String _path)
{
    mTracker.setScreenName(_path);
    mTracker.send(new HitBuilders.AppViewBuilder().build());
}

public void sendEventData(String category, String action, String label, long value)
{
    mTracker.send(new HitBuilders.EventBuilder()
            .setCategory(category)
            .setAction(action)
            .setLabel(label)
            .setValue(value).build());
}

EDIT 2

ok here is the use of sendCommerceData:

 sendCommerceData(new HitBuilders.ItemBuilder()
                                        .setTransactionId(Integer.toString(order.orderId))
                                        .setName(orderItem.tradeTitle)
                                        .setSku(orderItem.tradeId)
                                        .setCategory(orderItem.categoryFullname)
                                        .setPrice(price)
                                        .setQuantity(orderItem.quantity)
                                        .build());

u_u

Answer 1

My guess is that you are running ProGuard on your application but haven't added the following exceptions to your proguard-rules.txt:

-keep public class com.google.android.gms.common.internal.safeparcel.SafeParcelable {
    public static final *** NULL;
}

-keepnames @com.google.android.gms.common.annotation.KeepName class *
-keepclassmembernames class * {
    @com.google.android.gms.common.annotation.KeepName *;
}

-keepnames class * implements android.os.Parcelable {
    public static final ** CREATOR;
}