Latest Google Services (v. 21) ANE + AIRMobile native extension failed resolving interface

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I am trying to add latest Google Plus (google-play-services.jar) support to an Air mobile app by creating a native extension. The code doesn't have compile-time errors or warnings, the JAR is exported fine, ANE is built and included in project without problems, but when I run my apk, it crushes. In device-crush-logs I can see following error:

12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed

At first I tried to build an extension from empty project, all by myself. After that I found an extension with open source at github github.com/alextel69/google-play-game-services-ane/ I build that extension and include in my AIR mobile project and it works fine, but the google-play-services.jar is too old and doesn't contain classes I need, so i tried to replace it's libs/google-play-services.jar and libs/android-support-v4.jar with the newest ones that I got in my Android SDK Manager. And that caused the above errors. In this way, I did not modify a single code line, or ANT's build.xml, or anything else, I just switched old android-support-v4.jar + google-play-services.jar (works fine!) with newer android-support-v4.jar + google-play-services.jar (fails). I mean the ANE is built fine, even the extension is created and some of it's methods work and return values, but as I referense to google-service code, I get that strange error.

Though interfaces in both old and new JARs seem to be equal: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13839683/ane/jars_compare.png .

By the way, these errors seem to appear in AIR mobile only. Pure native application using these android-support-v4.jar + google-play-services.jar have no problems.

Here is a brief scheme of my native extension: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13839683/ane/scheme.png

And here is a complete device log from extension's birth and till it's crush :

12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 I ~ANE~   : ------------- INITIALIZE MY EXTENSION -------------
12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 I ~ANE~   : ------------- CREATE MY EXTENSION -------------
12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Could not find method com.google.example.games.basegameutils.GameHelper.onStop, referenced from method com.google.api.games.Context.dispose
12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 6754: Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;.onStop ()V
12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0002
12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve static field 2701 (Leaderboards) in Lcom/google/android/gms/games/Games;
12-04 11:08:18.602 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x62 at 0x0000
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve static field 2700 (Achievements) in Lcom/google/android/gms/games/Games;
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x62 at 0x0000
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve static field 2700 (Achievements) in Lcom/google/android/gms/games/Games;
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x62 at 0x0000
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve static field 2700 (Achievements) in Lcom/google/android/gms/games/Games;
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x62 at 0x0000
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Could not find method com.google.example.games.basegameutils.GameHelper.beginUserInitiatedSignIn, referenced from method com.google.api.games.Context$beginUserInitiatedSignIn.call
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 6715: Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;.beginUserInitiatedSignIn ()V
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0009
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Could not find method com.google.example.games.basegameutils.GameHelper.signOut, referenced from method com.google.api.games.Context$signOut.call
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 6767: Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;.signOut ()V
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0009
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.612 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.622 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Could not find method com.google.example.games.basegameutils.GameHelper.isSignedIn, referenced from method com.google.api.games.Context$isSignedIn.call
12-04 11:08:18.622 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 6740: Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;.isSignedIn ()Z
12-04 11:08:18.622 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x000a
12-04 11:08:18.622 23195 23195 I ~ANE~   : Context :: testANE.call
12-04 11:08:18.622 23195 23195 I ~ANE~   : Context :: promptUserToSignInOnStartup.call
12-04 11:08:18.622 23195 23195 I ~ANE~~  : Context :: Extension.autoSignIn = true
12-04 11:08:18.622 23195 23195 I ~ANE~   : Context :: start.call
12-04 11:08:18.622 23195 23195 I ~ANE~~  : Context :: start.call[END]
12-04 11:08:18.622   480 26966 I ActivityManager: START u0 {cmp=air.com.sq.kitchen/com.google.api.games.SignInActivity} from pid 23195
12-04 11:08:18.712 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 6728: Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;.getInvitationId ()Ljava/lang/String;
12-04 11:08:18.712 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0002
12-04 11:08:18.712 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.712 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.712 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.712 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.712 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Could not find method com.google.example.games.basegameutils.GameHelper.getSignInError, referenced from method com.google.example.games.basegameutils.BaseGameActivity.getSignInError
12-04 11:08:18.712 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 6731: Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;.getSignInError ()Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper$SignInFailureReason;
12-04 11:08:18.712 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0002
12-04 11:08:18.732 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.732 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.742 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.742 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0002
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Could not find method com.google.example.games.basegameutils.GameHelper.makeSimpleDialog, referenced from method com.google.example.games.basegameutils.BaseGameActivity.showAlert
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 6746: Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;.makeSimpleDialog (Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)Landroid/app/Dialog;
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0002
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Could not find method com.google.example.games.basegameutils.GameHelper.signOut, referenced from method com.google.example.games.basegameutils.BaseGameActivity.signOut
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 6767: Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;.signOut ()V
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: VFY: replacing opcode 0x6e at 0x0002
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 I dalvikvm: Failed resolving Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper; interface 940 'Lcom/google/android/gms/common/api/GoogleApiClient$ConnectionCallbacks;'
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: Link of class 'Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/GameHelper;' failed
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 D dalvikvm: DexOpt: unable to opt direct call 0x1a39 at 0x08 in Lcom/google/example/games/basegameutils/BaseGameActivity;.getGameHelper
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 I ~ANE~   : SignInActivity :: onCreate
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 D AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 W dalvikvm: threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x416dbba8)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime: Process: air.com.sq.kitchen, PID: 23195
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.google.example.games.basegameutils.GameHelper
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.google.example.games.basegameutils.BaseGameActivity.getGameHelper(Unknown Source)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.google.example.games.basegameutils.BaseGameActivity.onCreate(Unknown Source)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.google.api.games.SignInActivity.onCreate(Unknown Source)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5231)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1087)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2148)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2233)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:135)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1196)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5001)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:785)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:601)
12-04 11:08:18.762 23195 23195 E AndroidRuntime:        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
12-04 11:08:18.782   480 14720 W ActivityManager:   Force finishing activity air.com.sq.kitchen/com.google.api.games.SignInActivity
12-04 11:08:18.782   480 14720 W ActivityManager:   Force finishing activity air.com.sq.kitchen/.AppEntry

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I discovered this issue very thoroughly and found several simular threads, but none of them resolved my problem

1) The solution of Google plus ane air native extension failed resolving interface

jar xf /path-to-play-services-project/libs/google-play-services.jar

jar uf ./my_gplus_extension.jar ./com

does not fix anything.

2) Any manipulations with Eclipse Adobe Air 4.0 Native Extension with Google Play Services don't help either (after all, I am building JAR using ANT).

3) I do modify resourses (\google-play-services_lib\res*.*) when switching to a new google-service-library.

4) I even tried to extend google's interfaces and modified my GameHelper to implement them, but that did not help either (dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13839683/ane/extend_interface.jpg).

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '14 at 13:29

I managed to solve partially this problem. I asked the same question on starling-forum and it's member tsangwailam suggested me to replace the dx.jar in AIR SDK to the new one in Android SDK.

replacing dx.jar really helped. I took %ANDROID_SKD%\sdk\build-tools\19.1.0\lib\dx.jar and copied it into %FLEXSDK%\lib\android\bin\dx.jar and the extension began to work correctly!

but...

as soon as I run an activity SingInActivity

Intent intent = new Intent(context.getActivity().getApplicationContext(), SingInActivity.class); context.getActivity().startActivity(intent);

my application becomes inactive - fails to handle touches. it seems like some invisible modal popup appears and does'n allow my application to catch taps. after minimizing and restoring my application I see that SingInActivity steps into mehtod "protected void onStart()" and I know my applicatins "sees" it, because I log it using FREContext.dispatchStatusEventAsync() into my Flash's textfield, but application is stil not able to handle user inputs (both native flash and starling/stage3d TouchEvents) it's an interesting fact, that when my AIR application loses ability to handle touches, android's navigating buttons turn from hidden dots into actual buttons : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13839683/ane/untouchable.png

as for device log, I don't see there any erros, or Java ecxeptions, or nothing (at least for me) that could explain such behavior.

So what can it be? Maybe there are some other JARs I need to replace?

It's OK, the activity should be stopped after Google passes an answer (finish(); in onConnectionFailed or onConnected) — shurf771, Dec 08 '14 at 08:48

Latest Google Services (v. 21) ANE + AIRMobile native extension failed resolving interface

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