Unity game started crashing on android 8

Question

Got following stacktrace from Android Vitals:

java.lang.Error: FATAL EXCEPTION [main]
Unity version     : 5.6.2f1
Device model      : samsung SM-G955F
Device fin         


        

Answer 1

Today for our project in Android Vitals for users on Android 8.0 and 8.1 began to display the same failure. We use Unity 2017.1.3 Maybe it does not depend on the version of Unity. I found some correlation of the occurrence of such a failure with the release of updates for Google Play Market.

UPDATE: We were able to reproduce this error on our Android 8.1 device:

• Launch the application on the device.
• Force Google Play Market to stop.
• Try to purchase IAP in the store.
• Watch the specified error report in Android Vitals

Given the peculiarity of this error to appear unexpectedly and massively, and then also unexpectedly disappear completely without making changes to the application, we concluded that the system service stops forcibly when the background of the Google Play Market is updated for users with auto-update enabled and connecting to the WiFi network during use our application and then try to access the data or conduct an operation with IAP in the Google Play store.