"Unfortunately, Binary Eye has stopped" - all versions after Binary Eye 1.9.1

[ghost]

Good day

Firstly, thank you very much for creating Binary Eye!
In my opinion Binary Eye is the best,
compared to: Barcode Scanner, SecScanQR, QR Scanner, Obsqr.

Unfortunately, in latest updates I'm encountering strange "Unfortunately, Binary Eye has stopped." error when I try to use Binary Eye for longer time.

STR:

1. Open BinaryEye
2. Play with it for few seconds
   and see that it crashing with this error:
   "unfortunately, Binary Eye has stopped."

Latest not affected version of BinaryEye:
1.9.1

First affected version of BinaryEye:
1.10.0

Other affected versions of BinaryEye:
1.11.0
1.11.1

Operating system:
Android 6.0.1

Compilation number:
23.5.A.1.291

Kernel version:
3.4.0-pref-gc14c2d5

Mobile phone:
Sony Xperia Z3 Compact (D5803)

Best regards

[molikuner]

Hey, could you please add a stack trace?
This would really help finding the reason for the error.
You can obtain a stack trace with you pc via adb logcat.

[markusfisch]

Looking into the Google Play crash logs, I think updating to the latest ZXing version may be the problem: b888e37

I don't know why or how but I see some NoSuchMethodErrors originating from ZXing.

Sorry for the inconvenience. I'll downgrade ZXing to 3.3.3 again and make a new release as soon as I'm home.

[ghost]

Awesome! Thank you very much! \o/

Seems like:

ZXing 3.4.0

• Requires Java 8+. Note: Android apps using this version must target API 24 or higher.

Other crash reports regarding this issue:

• Crash app when scanning barcode in version 3.4.0 zxing/zxing#1189
• In Android API 21 (Lollipop) it is crashing when scanning the QR code zxing/zxing#1181
• Error before Android 24 version zxing/zxing#1177
• zxing-core 3.4.0 crashes on Android < 7.0 when decoding QR code zxing/zxing#1170
• Resolved a crash for Lollipop (API 21) versions while Scanning QR code zxing/zxing#1180

[markusfisch]

I've just released 1.11.2 into Beta with a ZXing downgrade to the previous version of 1.9.1. It should become available in the next few minutes or hours in the Beta channel. You may opt in here:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/de.markusfisch.android.binaryeye

You can always go back to the production version. I usually run the app through all of Google Play's pre-launch testings to make sure everything's okay before releasing it to the public. Of course, this takes a little time. If everything works as expected, the production release should happen a couple of hours later.

If you want to try it now, you may also just simply install the APK directly from the release here:

https://github.com/markusfisch/BinaryEye/releases/tag/1.11.2

[ghost]

Thank you very much!
This was instant fix! \o/
I'm confirming that this issue is now fixed in Binary Eye 1.11.2.
This issue can be now closed.