Since from the last update we starting having crashes related to the gms (google play services) library in the release build play console pre-launch automated tests.

We are not able to reproduce it in our test version with the emulators and the devices we have available or event in the firebase test lab (the play console uses this to do the pre-launch tests).

We already tried to bump up the firebase and google play service version and bump down to our previous versions.

The crashes are not always the same but all have the com.google.android.gms has common source for the crash. Event worse 20% of the time the pre-launch tests do not crash, during our internal testing we also tried to submit the same version only changing the versionCode and versionName and the tests crashed in the next run with the same tests being done on the same emulated device (in this case google pixel 8 android 14).

We also tried to change the proguard settings related to gms with:

• -keep class com.google.android.gms.internal.** { *; }
• -keep class com.google.android.gms.internal.gms.** { *; }
• nothing added

The api keys were also revised and we confirm that are working correctly.

Nothing else changed inside the app besides ui and logic code inside the application not related to any library in specific.

Examples of crashes that i’m having during the tests to check if someone else is having similiar problems:

Stack trace
Native crash of com.google.android.gms
backtrace:
  #00  pc 0x000000000004f85c  /apex/com.android.runtime/lib64/bionic/libc.so (abort+168)

Exception java.lang.IllegalStateException: AppSearchBatchResult has failures: {
  successes: {}
  failures: {https://g.co/pixeltips/tips_camera_pro_controls?LaunchFrom=APP_SEARCH=[FAILURE(6)]: Schema type config 'com.google.android.apps.tips$/Tip' not found}
}
  at androidx.a.a.b.a (AppSearchBatchResult.java:1)
  at com.google.android.apps.tips.search.platform.a.d (PlatformIndex.java:11)
  at com.google.android.apps.tips.search.b.a (TipsIndexingHelper.java:20)
  at com.google.android.apps.tips.search.d.run (TipsIndexingJobService.java:1)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker (ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run (ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
  at java.lang.Thread.run (Thread.java:920)</kbd>

Stack trace
Native crash of com.google.android.gms
backtrace:
  #00  pc 0x00000000003255e4  /data/user_de/0/com.google.android.gms/app_chimera/m/00000009/CronetDynamite.uncompressed.apk

Stack trace
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.Class java.lang.Object.getClass()' on a null object reference
Exception java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.Class java.lang.Object.getClass()' on a null object reference
  at android.os.Parcel.createExceptionOrNull (Parcel.java:3189)
  at android.os.Parcel.createException (Parcel.java:3167)
  at android.os.Parcel.readException (Parcel.java:3150)
  at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionFromParcel (DatabaseUtils.java:202)
  at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionFromParcel (DatabaseUtils.java:154)
  at android.content.ContentProviderProxy.call (ContentProviderNative.java:764)
  at android.content.ContentResolver.call (ContentResolver.java:2466)
  at android.content.ContentResolver.call (ContentResolver.java:2446)
  at ekfr.a (:com.google.android.gms@[email protected] (190400-633713831):29)
  at com.google.android.gms.wallet.intentoperation.setupwizard.PaymentsSetupWizardAccountChangeIntentOperation.onHandleIntent (:com.google.android.gms@[email protected] (190400-633713831):252)
  at com.google.android.chimera.IntentOperation.onHandleIntent (:com.google.android.gms@[email protected] (190400-633713831):2)
  at ajdw.onHandleIntent (:com.google.android.gms@[email protected] (190400-633713831):8)
  at pbh.run (:com.google.android.gms@[email protected] (190400-633713831):70)
  at pbg.run (:com.google.android.gms@[email protected] (190400-633713831):152)
  at elbx.run (:com.google.android.gms@[email protected] (190400-633713831):21)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker (ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run (ThreadPoolExecutor.java:644)
  at java.lang.Thread.run (Thread.java:1012)