java.lang.VerifyError when initializing MobileAds

[Amanzhol Tulepbayev]

Hi! I'm getting background crashes on this line in my android application:

@WorkerThread
fun initAsync() {
    runCatching {
        MobileAds.initialize(app) // crashes, even though i use runCatching
    }
}

Crash stack trace:

Caused by java.lang.VerifyError: Verifier rejected class com.google.android.gms.common.app.BaseApplicationContext: org.chromium.net.CronetEngine com.google.android.gms.common.app.BaseApplicationContext.getCronetEngine() failed to verify: org.chromium.net.CronetEngine com.google.android.gms.common.app.BaseApplicationContext.getCronetEngine(): [0x22]  can't resolve returned type 'Unresolved Reference: org.chromium.net.CronetEngine' or 'Unresolved Reference: yzw' (declaration of 'com.google.android.gms.common.app.BaseApplicationContext' appears in /data/app/~~SIY9z0IBucHHUFYU_2VoDQ==/com.google.android.gms-qOF3pYujFY2bdDGBsIX0Ng==/base.apk!classes2.dex)
       at ysl.b(:com.google.android.gms@224312045@22.43.12 (190408-483592595))
       at com.google.android.gms.chimera.container.DynamiteLoaderImpl.<init>(:com.google.android.gms@224312045@22.43.12 (190408-483592595):1)
       at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java)
       at com.google.android.gms.dynamite.DynamiteModule.zzg(com.google.android.gms:play-services-basement@@18.1.0:5)
       at com.google.android.gms.dynamite.DynamiteModule.zza(com.google.android.gms:play-services-basement@@18.1.0:28)
       at com.google.android.gms.dynamite.DynamiteModule.getRemoteVersion(com.google.android.gms:play-services-basement@@18.1.0:1)
       at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.client.zzav.zzd(com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-lite@@21.3.0:5)
       at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.client.zzed.zzy(com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-lite@@21.3.0:3)
       at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.client.zzed.zzm(com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-lite@@21.3.0:8)
       at com.google.android.gms.ads.MobileAds.initialize(com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-lite@@21.3.0:3)
       at APPNAME.launcher.data.GoogleAdsInitDelegate.initAsync(GoogleAdsInitDelegate.kt:38)
       at APPNAME.launcher.data.DefaultAppLaunchInteractor.launchAsyncTasks(DefaultAppLaunchInteractor.kt:104)
       at APPNAME.launcher.data.DefaultAppController$onAppInitializerCreate$1.invokeSuspend(DefaultAppController.kt:66)
       at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.DispatchedTask.run(DispatchedTask.kt:106)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.internal.LimitedDispatcher.run(LimitedDispatcher.kt:42)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.TaskImpl.run(Tasks.kt:95)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler.runSafely(CoroutineScheduler.kt:570)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.executeTask(CoroutineScheduler.kt:749)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.runWorker(CoroutineScheduler.kt:677)
       at kotlinx.coroutines.scheduling.CoroutineScheduler$Worker.run(CoroutineScheduler.kt:664)

I'm not using r8/proguard

Version that I'm using:

implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:21.3.0"

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Amanzhol,

Is the crash reliably reproducible on your end? If so, could you please provide to us at least a sample project so we could further check? Kindly provide it to us via reply privately to author option or by following the steps below.
 

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Regards,

Teejay Wennie Mobile Ads SDK Team

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[Amanzhol Tulepbayev]

No, unfortunately it's not reproducible on my side. The crash is rare

среда, 16 ноября 2022 г. в 23:24:50 UTC+6, mobileadssdk:

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Amanzhhol,

Thank you for your confirmation and providing additional information to the reported issue. I've raised this to the team for further investigation. I'll update this thread the soonest I hear back from them.

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Amanzhhol,

The team responded back and mentioned that the crash is not happening in SDK code and rather as part of dynamite loading process which they see that issues like this are usually transient/rare. What we recommend as this point is to keep monitoring the crash and let us know if this simnifically increase using the latest version of the SDK.