Android map view widget has occasional runtime failure

[freakboy3742]

Originally posted by @mhsmith in #2462 (comment)

I can't reproduce this now, but several times on the "Android 14.0 (Google APIs)" emulator I saw the map remain blank, and I could only fix it by restarting the process. In the logs it printed this message hundreds of times:

D/OsmDroid: TileLoader failed to load tile due to mWriter being null (map shutdown?)

Followed by this:

W/python.stderr: Error in handler: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'android.content.Context org.osmdroid.views.MapView.getContext()' on a null object reference
W/python.stderr:    at org.osmdroid.views.MapViewRepository.getDefaultMarkerIcon(MapViewRepository.java:74)
W/python.stderr:    at org.osmdroid.views.overlay.Marker.setDefaultIcon(Marker.java:139)
W/python.stderr:    at org.osmdroid.views.overlay.Marker.<init>(Marker.java:114)
W/python.stderr:    at org.osmdroid.views.overlay.Marker.<init>(Marker.java:92)
W/python.stderr:    at com.chaquo.python.PyObject.callAttrThrowsNative(Native Method)
W/python.stderr:    at com.chaquo.python.PyObject.callAttrThrows(PyObject.java:232)
W/python.stderr:    at com.chaquo.python.PyInvocationHandler.invoke(PyInvocationHandler.java:31)
W/python.stderr:    at java.lang.reflect.Proxy.invoke(Proxy.java:1006)
W/python.stderr:    at $Proxy8.onLocationChanged(Unknown Source)
W/python.stderr:    at android.location.LocationManager$LocationListenerTransport$1.operate(LocationManager.java:3277)
W/python.stderr:    at android.location.LocationManager$LocationListenerTransport$1.operate(LocationManager.java:3274)
W/python.stderr:    at com.android.internal.listeners.ListenerExecutor.lambda$executeSafely$0(ListenerExecutor.java:127)
W/python.stderr:    at com.android.internal.listeners.ListenerExecutor$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.run(Unknown Source:8)
W/python.stderr:    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:958)
W/python.stderr:    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
W/python.stderr:    at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:205)
W/python.stderr:    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:294)
W/python.stderr:    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8177)
W/python.stderr:    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
W/python.stderr:    at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:552)
W/python.stderr:    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:971)
W/python.stderr: Traceback (most recent call last):
W/python.stderr:   File "/data/data/org.beeware.examples.hardware/files/chaquopy/AssetFinder/requirements/toga/handlers.py", line 80, in _handler
W/python.stderr:   File "/data/data/org.beeware.examples.hardware/files/chaquopy/AssetFinder/app/hardware/app.py", line 121, in location_changed
W/python.stderr:   File "/data/data/org.beeware.examples.hardware/files/chaquopy/AssetFinder/requirements/toga/widgets/mapview.py", line 104, in add
W/python.stderr:   File "/data/data/org.beeware.examples.hardware/files/chaquopy/AssetFinder/requirements/toga_android/widgets/mapview.py", line 97, in add_pin
W/python.stderr:   File "class.pxi", line 135, in java.chaquopy.JavaClass.__call__
W/python.stderr:   File "class.pxi", line 209, in java.chaquopy.setup_object_class.JavaObject.__init__
W/python.stderr:   File "class.pxi", line 972, in java.chaquopy.JavaMultipleMethod.__get__.lambda3
W/python.stderr:   File "class.pxi", line 1010, in java.chaquopy.JavaMultipleMethod.__call__
W/python.stderr:   File "class.pxi", line 789, in java.chaquopy.JavaMethod.__call__
W/python.stderr:   File "class.pxi", line 837, in java.chaquopy.JavaMethod.call_constructor
W/python.stderr:   File "env.pxi", line 110, in java.chaquopy.CQPEnv.NewObjectA
W/python.stderr:   File "env.pxi", line 546, in java.chaquopy.CQPEnv.check_exception

This looks like it might be an issue with OSMDroid. The error was generated by the Toga Hardware demo app.

[mhsmith]

See also #2525.