Google play services 5.0.77

Question

From the 25th of june two unrelated apps that are using ads started to have this NPE

java.lang.NullPointerException
   at zo.a(SourceFile:172)
   at aeh.a(SourceF         


        

Answer 1

This is a partial solution and it seems (so far) to fix 100% the crashes: you should postpone the ad request a few milliseconds to avoid this crash!

Simplified example:

    Handler handler = new Handler() {
        @Override
        public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
            AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder().build();
            adView.loadAd(adRequest);
            super.handleMessage(msg);
        }
    };

    if (handler != null) {
        handler.sendEmptyMessageDelayed(0, 200);
    }