tgkill - native error on Android 8.0 Samsung S8

Question

Recently I started getting Android native crashes (reported in Google Play vitals). They happen only on Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8+ phones with Android 8.

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Answer 1

This problem seems to be restricted to Samsung devices with Android 8.0, it is some bug about text selection and/or entering text and/or closing a dialog containing EditTexts and/or rotating the screen.

It seems that there is a workaround. Create a xml file in the res/drawable folder defining an empty shape, as follows.

In the layout file, add the following attributes to the EditTexts:

android:textSelectHandle="@drawable/empty"
android:textSelectHandleRight="@drawable/empty"
android:textSelectHandleLeft="@drawable/empty"

source: Samsung developers forum crash Samsung Galaxy S8 libhwui.so