[Interest] Qt 5.14 & android: application doesn't start

[Jérôme Godbout]

Android in 5.14.0 is borken do not use for release to Play Store.

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-80713?focusedCommentId=490024&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-490024

There is also modification to the AndroidManifest.xml required. We had a thread of this on QtMob slack channel, but here is the highlight I did find (copy from slack):

This tag have been added to the AndroidManifest.xml for 5.14.0:
<meta-data android:value="@string/unsupported_android_version" android:name="android.app.unsupported_android_version"/>
I will try to add it on my application too.
This seem to be gone:
<meta-data android:name="android.app.bundled_in_lib_resource_id" android:resource="@array/bundled_in_lib"/>
<meta-data android:name="android.app.bundled_in_assets_resource_id" android:resource="@array/bundled_in_assets"/>
<meta-data android:name="android.app.load_local_libs" android:value="-- %%INSERT_LOCAL_LIBS%% --"/>
this have been replaced by this:
<meta-data android:name="android.app.load_local_libs_resource_id" android:resource="@array/load_local_libs"/>
The value is now default (was added, I was using full):
<meta-data android:name="android.app.extract_android_style" android:value="default"/>
The activity tag configChanges also added:
mcc|mnc|density
The application tag also have this more:
android:extractNativeLibs="true"


This is Niels Mayer solution to select a different AndroidManifest for 5.14.0 or above:

## For Android and Qt>=5.14 AndroidManifest.xml is incompatible with old version, thus need 
   ## Separate "android-newqt/AndroidManifest.xml" for Qt>=5.14 
   ## See https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-80444 for details. 
   equals(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 5):greaterThan(QT_MINOR_VERSION,13) { ##Android with Qt>=5.14 
     message("Using 'android-newqt/' as ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR...") 
     DISTFILES += \ 
       android-newqt/AndroidManifest.xml \ 
       android-newqt/build.gradle \ 
       android-newqt/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar \ 
       android-newqt/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties \ 
       android-newqt/gradlew \ 
       android-newqt/gradlew.bat \ 
       android-newqt/res/values/libs.xml 
     ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR = $$PWD/android-newqt 
   } 
   ## For Android and Qt<5.14 AndroidManifest.xml is incompatible with new version, thus need 
   ## Separate "android-oldqt/AndroidManifest.xml" for Qt<5.14 
   else { 
     message("Using 'android-oldqt/' as ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR...") 
     DISTFILES += \ 
       android-oldqt/AndroidManifest.xml \ 
       android-oldqt/build.gradle \ 
       android-oldqt/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar \ 
       android-oldqt/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties \ 
       android-oldqt/gradlew \ 
       android-oldqt/gradlew.bat \ 
       android-oldqt/res/values/libs.xml 
     ANDROID_PACKAGE_SOURCE_DIR = $$PWD/android-oldqt 
   } 
} (edited)

-----Original Message-----
From: Interest <interest-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Alexander Ivash
Sent: January 6, 2020 2:10 PM
To: interestqt-project.org <interest at qt-project.org>
Subject: [Interest] Qt 5.14 & android: application doesn't start

Is it just me or this is known issue? Is there known workaround?

W ResourceType: No package identifier when getting name for resource number 0x00000000

W ResourceType: No package identifier when getting name for resource number 0x00000000

W ResourceType: Invalid package identifier when getting bag for resource number 0x00000000

I zygote64: Do partial code cache collection, code=29KB, data=18KB

I zygote64: After code cache collection, code=29KB, data=18KB

I zygote64: Increasing code cache capacity to 128KB

E Qt : Can't create main activity

E Qt : android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: String array resource ID #0x0

E Qt : at android.content.res.Resources.getStringArray(Resources.java:589)

E Qt : at android.content.res.MiuiResources.getStringArray(MiuiResources.java:160)

E Qt : at org.qtproject.qt5.android.bindings.QtLoader.startApp(QtLoader.java:423)

E Qt : at org.qtproject.qt5.android.bindings.QtActivityLoader.onCreate(QtActivityLoader.java:183)

E Qt : at org.qtproject.qt5.android.bindings.QtActivity.onCreateHook(QtActivity.java:266)

E Qt : at org.qtproject.qt5.android.bindings.QtActivity.onCreate(QtActivity.java:273)

E Qt : at squaltech.com.RootActivity.onCreate(RootActivity.java:56)

E Qt : at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7084)

E Qt : at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:7075)

E Qt : at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1215)

E Qt : at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2767)

E Qt : at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2892)

E Qt : at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap11(Unknown Source:0)

E Qt : at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1613)

E Qt : at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)

E Qt : at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:176)

E Qt : at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6635)

E Qt : at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)

E Qt : at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:547)

E Qt : at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:823)
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