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Scheme integer overflow11/5/2023 What often happens is that some other code has a bug in it that is creating the error condition and letting it propagate to the code that finally reports the error. That code is just checking for invalid conditions and spitting out the most immediate local symptom. Usually, it's not the job of the code reporting the error message to say why the error happened. Under normal conditions, you're not supposed to burn anything on the stove, but it's still nice to have something warning you when it detects smoke, just in case you mess up. That's kind of like saying, "Why doesn't my smoke alarm tell me which pan is burning on the stovetop?" That's not its job or even within its capabilities. But you will get better and things will get easier. Tl/Dr: yes it's hard and some error messages suck because they just can't reasonably be better. But now I've got more experience and skills at my disposal so I have more ways of being able to solve the problem. I still run into those every once in a while. And your Google-Fu will get better so you can find solutions quicker.īut there will always be that obscure error that you just can't seem to find any help with no matter what you do. You'll get better at knowing what things to try checking first. You'll recognize more errors and not need Google to solve them. While I haven't done a ton of game dev, I have been a professional software developer for many years. Especially if a given error could have multiple possible sources. Android, in this case, can't possibly know what tools (and versions) you are using tobe able to say "your checkbox is unchecked". But people are coming up with ways to use new libraries and tools and languages all the time. To you it's obvious you are using these tools and these libraries and this language and. The reason it can't tell you "your app broke because you didn't check a checkbox, go do that" is because it can't know how you do everything you do. So it reports the problem it sees (the what) and it's your job to figure out the why. Android doesn't know why your app is built incorrectly, only that it is. As far as it could determine, it couldn't find your certificates because of how you built your app. From the looks of it you had Android try to load your app and it failed. Honestly the error messages are (usually) doing the best they can to report what is wrong, not why it's wrong. What is your experience and how long have you been a developer? After 2 years of developing what is presently the 4th highest rated mobile VR title, I still do not understand most new error messages. There are SO SO SO many more examples I could give as a Unity VR developer, but maybe I am just a slow newbie. The burden for their sloppiness is only our time. I dearly hope someone is using AI to crawl the web, find the actual root cause(s) that trigger errors, as clearly the current, labor intensive, capitalistic, centralized business model is producing SHIT error messages as there is likely NO return to the shareholders. It was "Split Application Binary" Īnyways. I probably accidentally unchecked at some point. I just had one checkbox in player settings unchecked on me. I do have signatures as part of my build as they are required for the Android based mobile VR stores, so I naturally thought I must have made an error with my key. “ITM.apk: : /data/local/tmp/_stream.apk could not be installed ” I am sure if I had more experience, I would have recognized that the error message was not really the error and could have solved it in under 5 seconds…BUT NO.I spent an hour before I read a forum post with the solution that was totally unrelated to the error. Paying it forward thank goodness as those making profit cannot. Thankfully, those unpaid to share knowledge for free on corporate forums, do so. No one cares about my time trying to determine an error. Like tonight's error that killed an hour of my indie dev productivity. Like how the do error messages suck so bad in 2022? I always just assumed it was my own ignorance but since becoming a VR developer I feel no better at understanding new ones when they pop up. You know what I mean if you have spent any time around anything called a computer.
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