I am trying to solve a Cocos2d-x Keyboard input crash on Android 5.x when I create CCImage from the text with many emoji found on the keyboard (some work though, but most don't.) On Android 4.x several of the devices just display mangled text/extra characters. The source of the crash is the JNI's NewStringUTF() call. It simply does not support all of the 2, 3 and 4 byte utf-8 characters in Android 5/Lollipop.
This crash happens on cocos2d-x v2.2.6 (and confirmed on 3.x) using NDK 10e with Toolchain 4.8 (not sure if any of that makes too much of a difference, we were using 9d prior to moving to Android Studio and I am certain we had this issue, but there was much less usage to lollipop.)
If you never push any of non-modified utf-8 symbols (i.e. stick to ascii) you'll probably never see the issue.
Log Cat:
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] string: 'ππ'
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] in call to NewStringUTF
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] from void org.cocos2dx.lib.Cocos2dxHelper.nativeSetEditTextDialogResult(byte[])
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] "GLThread 45716" prio=5 tid=14 Runnable
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] | group="main" sCount=0 dsCount=0 obj=0x12c0c6c0 self=0xf442bc00
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] | sysTid=10959 nice=0 cgrp=default sched=0/0 handle=0xf450c380
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] | state=R schedstat=( 0 0 0 ) utm=1164 stm=188 core=2 HZ=100
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] | stack=0xeed4e000-0xeed50000 stackSize=1036KB
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] | held mutexes= "mutator lock"(shared held)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #00 pc 00004e64 /system/lib/libbacktrace_libc++.so (UnwindCurrent::Unwind(unsigned int, ucontext*)+23)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #01 pc 00003665 /system/lib/libbacktrace_libc++.so (Backtrace::Unwind(unsigned int, ucontext*)+8)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #02 pc 00271461 /system/lib/libart.so (art::DumpNativeStack(std::__1::basic_ostream<char, std::__1::char_traits<char> >&, int, char const*, art::mirror::ArtMethod*)+84)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #03 pc 002534d7 /system/lib/libart.so (art::Thread::Dump(std::__1::basic_ostream<char, std::__1::char_traits<char> >&) const+158)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #04 pc 000b7f5b /system/lib/libart.so (art::JniAbort(char const*, char const*)+610)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #05 pc 000b8681 /system/lib/libart.so (art::JniAbortF(char const*, char const*, ...)+68)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #06 pc 000bac4f /system/lib/libart.so (art::ScopedCheck::Check(bool, char const*, ...) (.constprop.129)+922)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #07 pc 000c474d /system/lib/libart.so (art::CheckJNI::NewStringUTF(_JNIEnv*, char const*)+44)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #08 pc 002a6324 /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug-1/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (_JNIEnv::NewStringUTF(char const*)+40)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #09 pc 0076eb6c /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug-1/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (cocos2d::BitmapDC::getBitmapFromJavaShadowStroke(char const*, int, int, cocos2d::CCImage::ETextAlign, char const*, float, float, float, float, bool, float, float, float, float, bool, float, float, float, float)+312)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #10 pc 0076f12c /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug-1/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (cocos2d::CCImage::initWithStringShadowStroke(char const*, int, int, cocos2d::CCImage::ETextAlign, char const*, int, float, float, float, bool, float, float, float, float, bool, float, float, float, float)+216)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #11 pc 007aeb14 /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug-1/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (cocos2d::CCTexture2D::initWithString(char const*, cocos2d::_ccFontDefinition*)+1188)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #12 pc 0072cd6c /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug-1/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (cocos2d::CCLabelTTF::updateTexture()+120)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #13 pc 0072c804 /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug-1/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (cocos2d::CCLabelTTF::setString(char const*)+260)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #14 pc 00523140 /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug-1/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (cocos2d::extension::CCEditBoxImplAndroid::setText(char const*)+344)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #15 pc 00523474 /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug-1/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (???)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #16 pc 0076fb2c /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug-1/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (Java_org_cocos2dx_lib_Cocos2dxHelper_nativeSetEditTextDialogResult+208)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] native: #17 pc 001dfeb1 /data/dalvik-cache/arm/data@[email protected]@[email protected] (Java_org_cocos2dx_lib_Cocos2dxHelper_nativeSetEditTextDialogResult___3B+100)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] at org.cocos2dx.lib.Cocos2dxHelper.nativeSetEditTextDialogResult(Native method)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] at org.cocos2dx.lib.Cocos2dxHelper.access$000(Cocos2dxHelper.java:41)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] at org.cocos2dx.lib.Cocos2dxHelper$1.run(Cocos2dxHelper.java:267)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.guardedRun(GLSurfaceView.java:1501)
12-11 01:02:17.460 10451-10959/com.appsomniacs.da2.debug A/art: sart/runtime/check_jni.cc:65] at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.run(GLSurfaceView.java:1278)
Stack Trace (from a different test, but same crash)
Build fingerprint: 'samsung/zerofltetmo/zerofltetmo:5.1.1/LMY47X/G920TUVU3DOJ7:user/release-keys'
Revision: '11'
ABI: 'arm'
pid: 18460, tid: 18534, name: GLThread 28670 >>> com.appsomniacs.da2 <<<
signal 6 (SIGABRT), code -6 (SI_TKILL), fault addr --------
r0 00000000 r1 00004866 r2 00000006 r3 00000000
r4 f33a4db8 r5 00000006 r6 00000000 r7 0000010c
r8 88476100 r9 f442c800 sl 00000000 fp 12f61070
ip 00004866 sp f33a4960 lr f6f01cf9 pc f6f25c30 cpsr 600b0010
backtrace:
#00 pc 0003bc30 /system/lib/libc.so (tgkill+12)
#01 pc 00017cf5 /system/lib/libc.so (pthread_kill+52)
#02 pc 00018907 /system/lib/libc.so (raise+10)
#03 pc 000151a5 /system/lib/libc.so (__libc_android_abort+36)
#04 pc 00012fec /system/lib/libc.so (abort+4)
#05 pc 0075a275 /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2-2/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (__gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler()+220)
#06 pc 0072a10b /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2-
2/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (__cxxabiv1::__terminate(void (*)())+2)
#07 pc 0072a13b /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2-2/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (std::terminate()+10)
#08 pc 0072a4ab /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2-2/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (__cxa_pure_virtual+14)
#09 pc 0041ecc5 /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2-2/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so
#10 pc 005977ab /data/app/com.appsomniacs.da2-2/lib/arm/libcocos2dcpp.so (Java_org_cocos2dx_lib_Cocos2dxHelper_nativeSetEditTextDialogResult+110)
#11 pc 001dfe39 /data/dalvik-cache/arm/data@[email protected]@[email protected]