Lots of IndexOutOfBoundsException's getting thrown, possible admobs issue?

[Quinn Neumiiller]

We just started getting a ton of IndexOutOfBoundsException exceptions coming through on our app.

Here is the stack trace: 

java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append0(AbstractStringBuilder.java)
at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java)
at libcore.net.UriCodec.appendEncoded(UriCodec.java)
at libcore.net.UriCodec.appendPartiallyEncoded(UriCodec.java)
at java.net.URLStreamHandler.toExternalForm(URLStreamHandler.java)
at java.net.URL.toURILenient(URL.java)
at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.<init>(HttpEngine.java)
at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.newHttpEngine(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java)
at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.initHttpEngine(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java)
at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponse(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java)
at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java)
at ach.a(SourceFile:44)
at abz.run(SourceFile:14)
at acb.run(SourceFile:30)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)

I think it's an admob issue for when I was researching where this was coming from, 
at abz.run(SourceFile:14)
at acb.run(SourceFile:30)

led me to this topic : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-admob-ads-sdk/sePctoDJbRg%5B1-25-false%5D

which also brought me to this issue: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-admob-ads-sdk/U-WfmYa9or0

Suggestions / Advice? 

[Eric Leichtenschlag]

Hello,

What version of the AdMob SDK are you using? This trace doesn't look like it is coming from the Google Play services version of the library.

Thanks,
Eric

[Quinn Neumiiller]

We are using the latest Google Play Services library 4.3 / v16

[Eric Leichtenschlag]

You're right, the trace does check out to 4.3 release. I've let the SDK team know this reappeared in play services.

Thanks,
Eric

[Kyle Ivey]

This crash first appeared for us on April 2nd. Using a 3rd party crash reporting service, we've seen over 40,000 instances of it affecting over 19,000 unique users. In the play console it has been reported 2300 times.

Every day this issue continues the reputation of our app degrades. Eric, what can we do?

- Kyle

[Eric Leichtenschlag]

This will be fixed in the next version in the SDK. I'm also asking to see if there's anything the server can do to mitigate this crash.

Thanks,
Eric

[Todd Huss]

Any word on this issue? We're having the same problem!

[Eric Leichtenschlag]

This is addressed in Google Play services 4.4, which starts rolling out today.

Thanks,
Eric