[liuxiaoyao]

Dear guys:
I'm building a custom rom for UHost2 device and I'm facing the following problem:
If I manually install XBMC from apk file it copies apk to /data/app/ and libraries to /data/data/org.xbmc/xbmc/lib
Everything runs fine

But if I add it to the /system/apps and add xbmc's lib to /system/lib then it doesn't copy lib files to /data/data/org.xbmc/xbmc/lib although it creates the folder.
if i try to start it it runs for the first time quite slow and than crashes. and after that it crashes every time I'm trying to run it

Am I doing something wrong?
Is it actually possible to add XBMC to the firmware so I would have XBMC pre-installed after factory reset?

The device is RK3066 SoC, 1GB ram, 4GB internal storage.

Then I run XBMC apk (installed as system) it does crash dalvik VM with this logcat error:
I/ActivityManager( 642): START u0 {act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 cmp=org.xbmc.xbmc/.Main bnds=[34,200][130,296]} from pid 1860
D/AndroidRuntime( 1860): Shutting down VM
W/dalvikvm( 1860): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40b9d930)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{org.xbmc.xbmc/org.xbmc.xbmc.Main}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unable to find native library: xbmc
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2180)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2230)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:141)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1234)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5041)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:793)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:560)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unable to find native library: xbmc
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at android.app.NativeActivity.onCreate(NativeActivity.java:181)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at org.xbmc.xbmc.Main.onCreate(Main.java:18)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5113)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1080)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2144)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): ... 11 more
W/ActivityManager( 642): Force finishing activity org.xbmc.xbmc/.Main
I/Process ( 1860): Sending signal. PID: 1860 SIG: 9
I/WindowState( 642): WIN DEATH: Window{41384e18 u0 org.xbmc.xbmc/org.xbmc.xbmc.Splash}
I/ActivityManager( 642): Process org.xbmc.xbmc (pid 1860) has died.
I/qtaguid ( 642): Failed write_ctrl(s 0 10061) res=-1 errno=1

thanks!

[davilla]

Doing XBMC pre-installed to /system/apps is unsupported. Pre-loading to /system/apps apks that have shared libs is unsupported in Android.

[Berto]

Hi Davilla.
how are you?
I am trying to install xbmc in /system/app but i have the same problem, it installs very well, but when it starts, first time it runs...but suddenly it appears this error

E/AndroidRuntime( 1860): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{org.xbmc.xbmc/org.xbmc.xbmc.Main}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unable to find native library: xbmc

i tried to copy all xbmc libraries in /system/lib but it failes again.

So, let me ask you......is it possible to install xbmc as system/app? if not, is there any solution to do it and to install it by default in my system although not in /system folder?

Thank you very much!
Berto

[davilla]

"Pre-loading to /system/apps apks that have shared libs is unsupported in Android", that means, Android as designed and written by Google, cannot preload an apk that uses a native activity. You might be able to hack up the firmware to make it work. But there might be unintended side effects.