Crash Issue for the Word Speller/Pronouncer Android App
- Vid Madness Inc.
- Dec 11, 2016
- 1 min read
Saturday December 10th 2016 an update was released to help fix a crash issue that was discovered when an earlier update was r
eleased for the app that added the buttons to copy results of the Word Speller. It was a big issue due to the fact that when you tried to switch to the pronouncer, you would get the error "Word Speller/Pronouncer has stopped working". After reading the crash reports, we were quick to realize that it was a memory issue. Only problem was that we didn't know what was causing the app to run out of memory due to the fact that the app was built in MIT App Inventor 2. After doing some research I found out that the loading of each screen obviously takes a lot of the app's memory and they were ways to get around it. Also that images take up a lot of the memory that is used to load each screen. For testing purposes I removed all the play buttons on the pronouncer and tried to run the app and go to that screen. Sure enough, it was working fine, but i couldn't just remove the play buttons. So to fix the problem, the play icons were changed, and applied a function for each screen to completely close as the other screen loads to free up more loading memory.
Comentários