Hey all - probably a dumb question, but does anyone here find that their app crashes on particular devices only? I have an app that crashes on a Huwawei device and a TCL device for the same reason, but doesn't happen on any other devices I've tested on (primarily google phones). How do you all solve those types of crash?

Not Kotlin related, for that specific case could be an issue related to Play Services

Yep, one of the joys of android development! Samsung is famous for this. Sometimes you can kind of figure out contract a device is breaking from the stacktrace. If you’re lucky, you can get your company to expense one of the problematic devices, or otherwise someone might have one laying around.

haha that's what I suspected. One of the issues seems to be around focus management - seems crazy that one device would handle that differently from another - no idea how to even start figuring out what change to make specifically for huwawei devices 🙄

Samsung was famous for this (on my app). I am mostly experiencing this on huawei too.

How have you approached fixing things specifically on those devices? Just apply the fix "globally" and ensure that doesn't break things on all the other devices?!

Can you tell crash type? If native you can't do anything just report to Huawei.

you can integrate crashlaytics to find out crash.

you can use a device cloud service like bitbar to test on specific devices

A couple of months ago, I used Encrypted Shared Prefs. Worked fine for me but it crashed on certain phones.

I have 2 crashes that are similar in that they only affect certain devices: One has to do with focus management (I'm having to programmatically control focus on a text field to keep it from stealing focus when i don't want it to. The other seems to be an init issue with RevenueCat's Purchases SDK. Totally fine on most phones, but doesn't seem to initialize when expected on Huawei