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
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Answer 1

I have discovered a workaround.

In my case, I was showing the ad from within a service running in a custom process. For example:

In my AndroidManifest.xml, I then set the same android:process attribute for the declared AdActivity, and the problem went away.

In the case of my application, I don't particularly care which process the ad activity runs in, so this workaround is sufficient. Hopefully this will be of some use to others.