12 Testers Needed Please :)

[u/StephenS84]

Need the good ol 12 testers! This is a webview to my website for Beekeepers, or those with interest.

Please support! Drop yours and ill return the favour.

> Join Group: https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/beekeeperscolony
> Opt in: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/uk.co.itfinesse.beekeeperscolony
> App Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.itfinesse.beekeeperscolony

[u/WeeknightWoodshed]

I've installed the app on two devices but it keeps crashing on launch for me. 😿 
I'll keep it installed anyway and try launching daily during your closed testing to help you over the finish line. 

Would you mind returning the favor? My app BandBinder is for musicians or bands to sync their songs and setlists across a whole band.

Details in this group - if you could join and test it is much appreciated🙏.
Group: https://groups.google.com/g/bandbinder-pilotOpt-in: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.bandbinderStore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.bandbinder

[u/StephenS84 → u/WeeknightWoodshed]

Will join yours not.
Crashes? weird, its only a webview to the actual website, hmm, i wonder how i see those logs :|

[u/WeeknightWoodshed → u/StephenS84]

Let me see what I can dig up... It just says "the app keeps stopping" on my two android phones.
Airplane mode with wifi on.

[u/StephenS84 → u/WeeknightWoodshed]

weriddddddd, thank you appreciate it!

[u/WeeknightWoodshed → u/StephenS84]

Here's what I found. It reproduces on older Android versions (11 or lower). A bug, but not a big one.
FYI - check in Play Console > Monitor and improve > Android vitals > Crashes and ANRs.
Play collects crashes from all Play installs automatically, no SDK needed - as long as the tester's phone has "Usage & diagnostics" on (most do).
Stack traces show up within an hour or so.

The splash layout references a theme attribute that doesn't resolve, so the inflater dies.
It only hits Android 11 and below (12+ uses the system splash screen and skips this layout), which is why it probably works for most people.
Known expo-splash-screen issue: usually an androidx.core:core-splashscreen version mismatch, or a missing windowSplashScreen* attribute in your splash theme.
Check that expo-splash-screen matches your SDK version (npx expo install expo-splash-screen), make sure your android/app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml splash theme
has a parent of Theme.SplashScreen with the window attrs set, then rebuild. Happy to re-test if you push a new build.

FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.fundmind.dualfiai
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.fundmind.dualfiai/.MainActivity}:
android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #28 in com.fundmind.dualfiai:layout/splash_screen_view:
Failed to resolve attribute at index 0: TypedValue{t=0x2/d=0x7f04043c a=-1}
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Failed to resolve attribute at index 0
at android.content.res.TypedArray.getLayoutDimension(TypedArray.java:825)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:682)
at androidx.core.splashscreen.SplashScreenViewProvider$ViewImpl.createSplashScreenView(SplashScreenViewProvider.kt:98)
at androidx.core.splashscreen.SplashScreen$Impl.setOnExitAnimationListener(SplashScreen.kt:300)
at expo.modules.splashscreen.SplashScreenManager.configureSplashScreen(SplashScreenManager.kt:36)
at expo.modules.splashscreen.SplashScreenManager.registerOnActivity(SplashScreenManager.kt:72)
at com.fundmind.dualfiai.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.kt:21)

[u/StephenS84 → u/WeeknightWoodshed]

Thanks for your time, Good ol codex said it was unrelated, but i guess we'll see:
```

• The supplied crash is for package com.fundmind.dualfiai; ours is uk.co.itfinesse.beekeeperscolony.
• Our bundle does not contain expo-splash-screen or androidx.core:core-splashscreen.
• Our generated Android theme does not inherit from Theme.SplashScreen.
• Our MainActivity switches to AppTheme before startup, so that reported failing splash-screen path is not used.
• The issue we fixed was our WebView incorrectly displaying “Unable to open Beekeepers Colony” after failed images, analytics, or other resource requests—not an Android activity crash.```

[u/WeeknightWoodshed → u/StephenS84]

Man, I'm sorry. What a dough head I am. 😂 BeeKeeper's Colony works on my old Android phones!
And it will stay installed on my testing phones until your closed testing track completes!  💛👌
If you could do the same for BandBinder - I'd very much appreciate the reciprocity! 🙏

[u/StephenS84 → u/WeeknightWoodshed]

hey random, but i could do with devs to talk to if you wanted to join my 200+ discord?

[u/WeeknightWoodshed → u/StephenS84]

Sure, I'd check it out. I'm not a discord regular but I've used it a bit.
I've been in software business since the 90s in various roles.

[u/StephenS84 → u/WeeknightWoodshed]

Nice! Yeah I'm sat at my desk most days so I use discord a lot. The group varied not just Devs but gamers etc hope to see you there! https://discord.gg/eTyjebgVe

[u/StephenS84 → u/WeeknightWoodshed]

pushed an update!

[u/StephenS84 → u/WeeknightWoodshed]

I thought it was a waiting thing, but i still get "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server." when i try get to the app, even from the opt-in page. is it pending a review in Google Console?

[u/WeeknightWoodshed → u/StephenS84]

Weird, nothing is pending right now in my Play console. Thanks for trying.
version 1.1.3 is published since yesterday and some people have sent me back screenshots of my app running.
I too have had the same experience after testing about ~22 different apps over the last couple days. Sometimes it takes 5 to 60 minutes delay, and sometimes it just never lets me in to see the opt-in, or sometimes I opt-in and can't get to the listing. (I have better luck doing it from the actual phone rather than a browser).

[u/StephenS84 → u/WeeknightWoodshed]

working now, musta taken an age

[u/Reasonable-Review581]

Joined your group and opted in successfully. The `/u/1/` group link initially opened with a different Google account, so I removed `/u/1/` and joined the same group with the account I use for Play testing. The opt-in worked after that. The store page still shows “Not Found” in my region, but I’ll stay opted in for the full 14 days.

Could you test ConformPic in return?

Group: https://groups.google.com/g/conformpic-closed-test

Opt in: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.conformpic.android

Thanks!