Native crashes on abort in developer console with Oreo (8.1)

Question

In the developer console I get more and more a native crash in abort. This occurs ONLY for android 8.1 device! Is anybody aware of a regression? Here is the backtrace:

Answer 1

Check out this answer:

tgkill - native error on Android 8.0 Samsung S8

It seems it might be related to Samsung S8 and Samsung S8+.

Basically, if you have an edit text in a dialog or dialog fragment, highlight the text and then close the dialog (or do an orientation change) this crash will occur.

To resolve the issue, I had to turn off hardwareAcceleration on the offending activities - this can be done in the manifest and will cause the activity to lag a bit.

To help prevent the lag on OTHER devices, one can check the device model and if it is NOT a S8 or S8+, turn ON the hardware acceleration.

    String phoneMake =  Build.MANUFACTURER;
    String phoneModel =  Build.MODEL.toUpperCase();
    if (!(phoneMake.equalsIgnoreCase("samsung") && (phoneModel.startsWith("SM-G950")
            ||  phoneModel.startsWith("SM-G955")))) {
        window.setFlags(
                WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_HARDWARE_ACCELERATED,
                WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_HARDWARE_ACCELERATED);
    }