Error running exported APK

Paulo777

Hello!

I tried to test my exported apk, trying full export, but I am facing a weird thing: It is crashing... Strange.. because in the export as player I never faced trouble and I thought that'd be the same... Then I tried to open in the android studio to debug and I am having a weird error that I have no any idea why it is happening...

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: GLThread 1104 Process: app.paulo.game, PID: 8961 com.giderosmobile.android.player.LuaException: Helper/TiledMap.lua:20: attempt to call a nil value

My lua file that is pointing the error is the following:

local map = loadfile(filename)()

does anyone have a light? because in the player i don't have any compilation error pointing "nil" value but why now after apk full exported it is trowing this?

Apollo14

Is it crashing on the start?

It is a good practice to make essential variables safe after we load them, like:

coinsTotal = dataSaver.loadValue("coinsTotal") if coinsTotal==nil then coinsTotal=0 end

Maybe you could find what variable is nil, and make it safe to work with.
(I'm not sure if it helps, I'm also newbie in debugging)

In your case you can write:

local map = loadfile(filename)() if map==nil then map=yourSafeValue end

hgy29

Maybe you forgot to ‘exclude from compilation’ the file you are trying to load dynamically ?

Paulo777

hgy29 said:

Maybe you forgot to ‘exclude from compilation’ the file you are trying to load dynamically ?

@hgy29 Do you mean "exclude from execution"?
I tried to do that and then export it again but nothing... same thing.

Paulo777

Apollo14 said:

Is it crashing on the start?

It is a good practice to make essential variables safe after we load them, like:

coinsTotal = dataSaver.loadValue("coinsTotal") if coinsTotal==nil then coinsTotal=0 end

Maybe you could find what variable is nil, and make it safe to work with.
(I'm not sure if it helps, I'm also newbie in debugging)

In your case you can write:

local map = loadfile(filename)() if map==nil then map=yourSafeValue end

@Apollo14 I don't know what 'safe value' I could set to a variable... it is a tiledMap configuration. I load a map in it.

Yes, in the app launch It stops

SinisterSoft

This is better...

coinsTotal = dataSaver.loadValue("coinsTotal") or 0

and

local map = loadfile(filename)() or yourSafeValue

Paulo777

SinisterSoft said:

This is better...

coinsTotal = dataSaver.loadValue("coinsTotal") or 0

and

local map = loadfile(filename)() or yourSafeValue

@SinisterSoft thank you for the answer, but I load a map in the tiledmap. I don't know what 'safe value' I could set. Can I declare inside a loop while not nil? Don't know

antix

Maybe you should check your filename. Gideros player doesn't care about case errors in filenames.. but on export.. the device DOES care about case errors with filenames. This is one of the most annoying things I find in Gideros

Paulo777

antix said:

Maybe you should check your filename. Gideros player doesn't care about case errors in filenames.. but on export.. the device DOES care about case errors with filenames. This is one of the most annoying things I find in Gideros

@antix I thought EXACTLY on that. Then I changed the names of my png files that the tiledmap calls, one is for "clouds.png", the other for "groud_small.png". But it still keeps throwing me the error. Is anything wrong? I mean it does accept "_"... and in my folders there is no "_" in any folder names just unique name.

Paulo777

I set the file "Exclude from execution" now it works @antix @hgy29

It compiled successfully on android studio

SinisterSoft

Aside from this, why do you still use Android Studio rather than the built-in apk creation?

SinisterSoft

If you map loader results in a table being returned then just provide the table as the other answer,

local map = loadfile(filename)() or {} -- in the table here put 'default' map data

Paulo777

SinisterSoft said:

Aside from this, why do you still use Android Studio rather than the built-in apk creation?

@SinisterSoft I tried but App Crashed... Then I imported it to android studio to debug and figure out why it was going on. But the tip of @hgy29 worked for me to "exclude from execution" the lua file containing map informations. Don't know why but it worked

by the way, now every change I make in gideros I'm exporting as "assets only" and debuging on android studio, this is working perfectly