MapBox Android application crashes after update to SDK 4.1.0 on emulator

Question

After the update to Android MapBox SDK 4.1.0/4.1.1 my app crashes on Android emulator with:

E/mbgl: [Shader]: Vertex shader fill failed to compile: precision         


        

Answer 1

I have verified that this issue does in fact crash Android x86 physical devices. RemixOS has the exact same crash as can be seen from catlog - if anyone wants the full log - let me know, but its mostly the same as above except that I also have the reg dump and backtrace showing that it was the mapbox SDK that originated the issue.

My guess is that the issue is because most Android x86 devices aren't supporting the ES variant of OpenGL (for embedded devices), but rather the full desktop spec. This is normally not a concern, but the #ifdef specifically tests for the ES variant and then #define's away a few types that I think need to be defined. The ES variant sets highp to a float while the non-ES code leaves it blank! This would cause the compilation problem (basically JIT via LLVM) and then the lack of code and the crash-n-burn.