ANRs in MobileAds.Initialize()

[Lakshman Chilukuri]

Getting ANRs for some users at the MobileAds.Initialize(context,appid) call. It is tying up my UI thread I think.

What happens if I remove this call ? Is it possible to omit this call? I remember that I had not used this call for a long time and everything worked fine

This is the stack trace

"main" prio=5 tid=1 Native | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 obj=0x74281688 self=0xb3b84400 | sysTid=1493 nice=-4 cgrp=default sched=0/0 handle=0xb68f1534 | state=D schedstat=( 2812207521 1147838378 6590 ) utm=119 stm=160 core=1 HZ=100 | stack=0xbe4aa000-0xbe4ac000 stackSize=8MB | held mutexes=

#00 pc 000000000105db1c /data/app/com.android.chrome-2/base.apk (???)

at org.chromium.android_webview.AwContents.nativeInit (Native method)

at org.chromium.android_webview.AwContents.<init> (SourceFile:81)

at uY.run (SourceFile:15)

at ahv.a (SourceFile:13)

at ahw.run (SourceFile:2)

at org.chromium.base.ThreadUtils.b (SourceFile:31)

at ahv.a (SourceFile:7)

at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromiumFactoryProvider.b (SourceFile:6)

at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium.init (SourceFile:111)

at android.webkit.WebView.<init> (WebView.java:636)

at android.webkit.WebView.<init> (WebView.java:572)

at android.webkit.WebView.<init> (WebView.java:555)

at android.webkit.WebView.<init> (WebView.java:542)

at android.webkit.WebView.<init> (WebView.java:532)

at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.webview.q.call (unavailable:5)

at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.js.z.run (unavailable:5)

at android.os.Binder.transact (Binder.java:499)

at com.google.android.gms.internal.ads.by.b (unavailable)

at com.google.android.gms.internal.ads.eh.a (unavailable)

at com.google.android.gms.internal.ads.ex.a (unavailable)

- locked <0x0389ab60> (a java.lang.Object)

at com.google.android.gms.ads.h.a (unavailable)

at com.google.android.gms.ads.h.a (unavailable)

[Alikha Naila]

[mobileadssdk-a...@google.com]

Hi,

Thank you for reaching out to us regarding this.

Though you should still be able to load ads without the MobileAds.initialize(), it is still recommended to call this method prior to calling your first Ad request to lessen latency in the first Ad request. Ideally, this method should be called at the start but after you've initialized and loaded your other app components.

That said, we will raise the ANR report you've received to the rest of the team and we'll get back to this thread for any official feedback.

On the other hand, is the ANR reproducible on your end? To add to our investigation details, can you provide the following details as well? 

• Mobile Ads SDK version used
• Affected devices information (e.g. OS version, Play Services installed, device model)
• Copy of the crash report or the Crashlytics link (if available)

Regards,

Ivan Bautista

Mobile Ads SDK Team

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[Lakshman Chilukuri]

Hi

Thanks for your quick reply

On the other hand, is the ANR reproducible on your end? To add to our investigation details, can you provide the following details as well? 

Not reproducible. Only few users.

• Mobile Ads SDK version used

 com.google.firebase:firebase-ads-lite:15.0.1

• Affected devices information (e.g. OS version, Play Services installed, device model)

I think the ANRs are spread across all over the API levels and assorted devices. Installed from Google play store only so I guess should be having play services.

• Copy of the crash report or the Crashlytics link (if available)

I am not having crashlytics. Rely upon dev console reports only. Its not giving any option to download the full report. But I have tried to copy and paste one full report. A text file is attached.

Regards

[mobileadssdk-a...@google.com]

Hi Lakshman,

Thank you for getting back to us with more information.

We will relay this to the rest of the team and we'll get back to this thread for any official feedback.

Regards,
Ivan Bautista

Mobile Ads SDK Team

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