Hi David, A couple years ago I built an android app for the NumberFields@home project. I too saw random seg faults about 50% of the time, and this was with code that worked perfectly on linux/windows/mac platforms. I never figured it out, primarily because I was too busy to learn how to use the android debugger. I put it on the back burner and never came back to it. So I'm glad to see you may have figured it out.
As a side note, do you get enough android users to justify the extra work of maintaining the android app? Thanks, Eric -----Original Message----- From: boinc_dev [mailto:boinc_dev-boun...@ssl.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of David E Kim Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 11:40 AM To: boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu Subject: [boinc_dev] BOINC API issue with android arm? Hi all, I’m not sure if this is the right list to use but thought I’d mention it here. I tried to contact David Anderson via email but have not heard back. I was wondering if anyone has random seg fault issues with their android apps for their BOINC projects. Our Rosetta@home android application had pretty bad success rates and I found that the main cause was the use of “setitimer” in the “start_worker_signals” function in the boinc_api.cpp code. Our Rosetta app runs stable without the BOINC api, but when using the default api, it crashed randomly. I developed a workaround which avoids “setitimer" in the api code and our app is stable with the modified BOINC api and is now in production for our Rosetta@home project. Our success rates for android arm have gone from 40-60% to 95%. I’m wondering if this is just a Rosetta application induced bug (it’s a pretty substantial scientific app) or a general android issue. Thanks, David Kim _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
