Android crash on scene loading with relative path

[DriNeo]

Operating system or device:
Android 4.0.3 ; LG P700

Issue description (what happened, and what was expected):
When some scenes are loaded by script, the Android app crashes on startup. The phone must be rebooted.

• If you run only the scene it works nice also on Android.
• If you instance the scene by editor the app works nice too.
• It crashes only if the scene is loaded in a script.

Steps to reproduce:

• Click on the example project link. (wait a minute hubiC seems slow on my Firefox)
• Check the zip file and download it. The poisoned scene is "PausePopup2.tscn"
• Connect an Android device.
• Run the project on Android.
• Epileptic persons should switchoff the device immediately.

Link to minimal example project (optional but very welcome):

http://ovh.to/KsqY4Xb

[DriNeo]

I think I surrounded the problem. Android really needs paths strings who begin with " res:// " otherwise the loading fails.

It's my bad but I leave to you the choice to close this issue. Maybe the file paths format need consistency between PC and Android.

[neikeq]

I would open a new issue and close this one, or include you last message in the Issue description (I didn't port to Android yet, so I can't give an opinion).

[DriNeo]

Maybe you can rename the issue.

To summarize:
PC allows simple " / " to represent the root project, but Android need "res://" otherwise the app crashes and the O.S freezes on some devices ( or every devices and I'm the only one to write paths with " / " ?)

[reduz]

i can't get the sample project, would appreciate if you can post it again

[Faless]

You should always use res:// to access project resources as stated by the official documentation.

Relative paths eg. load("test.gd") or load("scene/test.tscn") actually works (just tested in 2.1 branch).

Access to file system via absolute paths (C:\ and /) are there for platform that allows it (mainly PC and Servers) and discouraged unless you really need it.

For writable File System (eg. preferences, temp files, and so on) user:// should be used (I think you will need the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission on android but you can double check).

I think this can be closed.

[Faless]

PC allows simple " / " to represent the root project, but Android need "res://" otherwise the app crashes and the O.S freezes on some devices ( or every devices and I'm the only one to write paths with " / " ?)

This was actually fixed by #7172 and previous long PR/Issue history ( 😿 ) and now correctly points to the root of the file system.

[bojidar-bg]

Yeah, closing as yet one of those misapplications of the root filesystem path.... Also, duplicate of #4280