StreetView Composable crashes with some locations

[moallemi]

Environment details

1. StreetView Composable
2. Google Pixel 6 Pro - Android 13
3. android:maps-compose:2.9.1 / com.google.maps.android:maps:3.4.0 / play-services-maps:18.1.0

Steps to reproduce

1. Open StreetViewActivity in sample of this repo with this latitude=32.429634, longitude=-96.828891

Code example

The fast path to reproduce: Change current singapore

val singapore = LatLng(1.35, 103.87)

to

val singapore = LatLng(32.429634, -96.828891)

and run the sample app and navigate to Street View from Main Activity

Stack trace

com.google.maps.api.android.lib6.common.apiexception.f: java.lang.NullPointerException: Parameter specified as non-null is null: method kotlin.jvm.internal.Intrinsics.checkNotNullParameter, parameter it
	at com.google.maps.api.android.lib6.streetview.camera.i.g(:com.google.android.gms.dynamite_mapsdynamite@214218113@21.42.18 (190400-0):23)
	at com.google.maps.api.android.lib6.streetview.camera.e.run(:com.google.android.gms.dynamite_mapsdynamite@214218113@21.42.18 (190400-0):0)
	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:938)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7839)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1003)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Parameter specified as non-null is null: method kotlin.jvm.internal.Intrinsics.checkNotNullParameter, parameter it
	at com.google.maps.android.compose.streetview.StreetViewPanoramaPropertiesNode.onAttached$lambda$3(Unknown Source:7)
	at com.google.maps.android.compose.streetview.StreetViewPanoramaPropertiesNode.$r8$lambda$u0P0-MFqw789nPtol3qohzgcP-I(Unknown Source:0)
	at com.google.maps.android.compose.streetview.StreetViewPanoramaPropertiesNode$$ExternalSyntheticLambda3.onStreetViewPanoramaChange(Unknown Source:2)
	at com.google.android.gms.maps.zzai.zzb(com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps@@18.0.0:1)
	at com.google.android.gms.maps.internal.zzbk.zza(com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps@@18.0.0:2)
	at com.google.android.gms.internal.maps.zzb.onTransact(com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps@@18.0.0:3)
	at android.os.Binder.transact(Binder.java:1064)
	at dw.aZ(:com.google.android.gms.dynamite_mapsdynamite@214218113@21.42.18 (190400-0):2)
	at com.google.maps.api.android.lib6.streetview.camera.i.g(:com.google.android.gms.dynamite_mapsdynamite@214218113@21.42.18 (190400-0):22)
	at com.google.maps.api.android.lib6.streetview.camera.e.run(:com.google.android.gms.dynamite_mapsdynamite@214218113@21.42.18 (190400-0):0) 
	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:938) 
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201) 
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288) 
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7839) 
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:548) 
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1003) 

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[wangela]

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[moallemi]

I tried to open this location with google maps intent:

adb shell am start -a "android.intent.action.VIEW" -d "google.streetview:cbll=32.429634,-96.828891"

And it seems that this location is not supported by street view. So is there any way to catch the exception?

[yusufonderd]

Same issue. I'm getting same exception where there is no street details. I am looking forward to this issue being fixed.

[StephenVinouze]

I've just tried StreetView. Works great but I won't use it until we can at least know if we can display the StreetView at a given location. I'll monitor this issue :)

[moallemi]

@StephenVinouze You can check the availability with streetview REST API for now

[wangela]

Hi folks, @kikoso has drafted a PR for a new utility in android-maps-utils that does the work of checking whether a Street View panorama exists at the desired location, so you can call that first and only request a Street View panorama if one exists. Take a look at the issue and associated PR to comment on whether that would help in handling locations where Street View is not available.

[wangela]

The Street View metadata util is now available in com.google.maps.android:android-maps-utils:3.5.0 to help make a free request to check existence of a Street View panorama at a given location before requesting the panorama. Usage instructions.

To resolve this bug, add a step to the Street View composable implementation to use the StreetViewUtil before requesting a panorama.

[lawm]

Will there be a change in android-maps-compose to avoid the crash? Or show us how to catch the exception?

[kikoso]

Hi @lawm . I am leaning towards checking this from the App Level, and checking that the initial coordinate is a valid one. We will PR a solution for this soon, now that the Street View library has released a function to fix this.

[wangela]

I agree wtih @kikoso's recommendation to leave the metadata check to the developer, so we keep the Compose library true to the scope of the Maps SDK and do not force high-volume, latency-inducing metadata checks in use cases where the developer is confident that the panoramas exist.

[googlemaps-bot]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 4.0.0 🎉

The release is available on:

• v4.0.0
• GitHub release

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[wangela]

Please make sure you have maps-compose-utils v3.0.0 or later and enable the Street View Static API on the project associated with your API key using the instructions at https://goo.gle/enable-sv-static-api in order to use the fetchStreetViewData method.

[amatanat]

Hi @wangela. We wanna restrict source to outdoor only. However fetchStreetViewData doesn't support it currently. Would it be possible to extend API with this option? I can create a new issue/feature request 🙂 .

[yusufonderd]

Hi @wangela. We wanna restrict source to outdoor only. However fetchStreetViewData doesn't support it currently. Would it be possible to extend API with this option? I can create a new issue/feature request 🙂 .

I already opened a pr for this: googlemaps/android-maps-utils#1262