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Pedro asked Sep 14, '13

Other NPE on Amazon Ads

Hello. Here is another NPE inside Amazon Ads module (Im using version .40 of the SDK). An ad provider should NEVER throw an exception and crash the main program. Catch all the possible exceptions: disable the Ads if you cant work around the exception, but DONT crash the main program, please. And NPEs are always avoidable. java.lang.NullPointerException: at com.amazon.device.ads.MraidAssets.getBaseFilePath(MraidAssets.java:92) at com.amazon.device.ads.MraidAssets. (MraidAssets.java:61) at com.amazon.device.ads.MraidAssets.getInstance(MraidAssets.java:68) at com.amazon.device.ads.AdController.ensureAssetsCreated(AdController.java:338) at com.amazon.device.ads.AdLoader.fetchAd(AdLoader.java:72) at com.amazon.device.ads.AdLoader$AdFetcherTask.doInBackground(AdLoader.java:390) at com.amazon.device.ads.AdLoader$AdFetcherTask.doInBackground(AdLoader.java:383)

mobile ads

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Sujoy@Amazon answered Sep 18, '13

Hi Pedro, Can you please provide us app details like app name or id where you are getting below NPE reported?

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Pedro answered Sep 18, '13

Thats not a common/recurring exception, from my logs it seems to have happened to only 3 users, but still thats something that should never happen. Is there an email I can send the info? I will send the full stack trace and app info.

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Sujoy@Amazon answered Sep 19, '13

I agree. Please write a ContactUs ( https://developer.amazon.com/help/contactus.html), and say there that you are told to provide the app information from this forum thread ( https://forums.developer.amazon.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1488&tstart=0) .

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Sujoy@Amazon answered Sep 30, '13

We have identified the issue and planning to release it shortly. I will notify in this forum after we are done. Thanks.

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Sujoy@Amazon answered Oct 31, '13

Hi Pedro, Thanks for your patience. We've released Mobile Ads Android SDK v. 5.1.153 into production. It addresses this issue and can be downloaded at the Developer Portal: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/mobileads.html

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