Hi Mark, Its on the UI thread from a button click.
William On Feb 7, 11:37 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > When are you calling this? > > One conceivable scenario would be if you are doing this a bit > asynchronously from your activity (e.g., AsyncTask). If the user fired > up your activity, then hustled over to uninstall it, *and* if the > uninstall process were to update the package info before terminating > your process, *and* your background work called getPackageInfo() > between the update of PackageManager and your process being > terminated, I can see you getting this error. Even assuming all the > implementation stuff works as described, though, this seems like a > low-probability event. > > Beyond that, all I can think of are gremlins. > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:43 AM, William Ferguson > > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm received several instances of the IllegalStateException being > > thrown out in the wild. > > It's very rare and I can't reproduce it locally. > > > How is it possible for it to occur? > > NB Context below is this case is an Activity. > > > final String packageName = context.getPackageName(); > > try { > > return context.getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(packageName, > > PackageManager.GET_SIGNATURES); > > } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) { > > throw new IllegalStateException("Could not find the package for " > > + packageName + "!!", e); > > } > > > William > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.7 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
