Android - Firebase not initialised in GroupIB process

[mountiny]

Problem

Android devices show Crash modal on app launch, though it can be dismissed.

From this report https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C05LX9D6E07/p1758703579605949

The Android app seems to crash out of the blue without a clear reason, maybe something from Pusher.

Try to find the crash logs in Google Play Console or Crashlytics to investigate this one deeper.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @NicMendonca (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[mountiny]

cc @Julesssss who saw this crash yesterday too

[Julesssss]

I believe this is the crash:

Default FirebaseApp is not initialized in this process org.me.mobiexpensifyg:gib. Make sure to call FirebaseApp.initializeApp(Context) first.

FATAL EXCEPTION: main (Ask Gemini)
Process: org.me.mobiexpensifyg:gib, PID: 17432
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create application org.me.mobiexpensifyg.Expensify: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Default FirebaseApp is not initialized in this process org.me.mobiexpensifyg:gib. Make sure to call FirebaseApp.initializeApp(Context) first.
	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:7836)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleBindApplication(Unknown Source:0)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2546)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:110)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:248)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:338)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:9067)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:593)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:932)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Default FirebaseApp is not initialized in this process org.me.mobiexpensifyg:gib. Make sure to call FirebaseApp.initializeApp(Context) first.
	at com.google.firebase.FirebaseApp.getInstance(SourceFile:179)
	at com.google.firebase.crashlytics.FirebaseCrashlytics.getInstance(SourceFile:194)
	at yapl.android.misc.YaplLogManager.log(SourceFile:237)
	at yapl.android.misc.YaplLogManager.logInfo(SourceFile:54)
	at yapl.android.Yapl.logInfo(SourceFile:146)
	at yapl.js.JSCrashReporter.restoreLastJSCrash(SourceFile:117)
	at yapl.js.JSCrashReporter.<init>(SourceFile:56)
	at yapl.js.JSCrashReporter.getInstance(SourceFile:43)
	at yapl.android.Yapl.onCreate(SourceFile:342)
	at org.me.mobiexpensifyg.Expensify.onCreate(SourceFile:89)
	at android.app.Instrumentation.callApplicationOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1381)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:7830)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleBindApplication(Unknown Source:0) 
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2546) 
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:110) 
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:248) 
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:338) 
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:9067) 
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:593) 
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:932) 

[Julesssss]

Definitely not appearing in Firebase

[Julesssss]

One lead is that the GroupIB Fraud protection changes. There have been many PRs, some of which are very recent.

GroupIB fraud protection runs in a separate Android process in which Firebase isn't initialized. It's possible this is hiding another exception, or that this is the underlying issue. I'm not sure yet.