I got a TransactionTooLargeException
. Not reproducible. In the docs it says
The Binder transaction failed because it was too large.
During a remote procedure call, the arguments and the return value of the call are transferred as Parcel objects stored in the Binder transaction buffer. If the arguments or the return value are too large to fit in the transaction buffer, then the call will fail and TransactionTooLargeException will be thrown.
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There are two possible outcomes when a remote procedure call throws TransactionTooLargeException. Either the client was unable to send its request to the service (most likely if the arguments were too large to fit in the transaction buffer), or the service was unable to send its response back to the client (most likely if the return value was too large to fit in the transaction buffer).
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So somewhere I'm passing or receiving arguments which exceed some unknown limit. Where?
The stacktrace doesn't show anything useful:
java.lang.RuntimeException: Adding window failed
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.setView(ViewRootImpl.java:548)
at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:406)
at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:320)
at android.view.WindowManagerImpl$CompatModeWrapper.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:152)
at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.addView(Window.java:557)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:2897)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2245)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:139)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1262)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4977)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: android.os.TransactionTooLargeException
at android.os.BinderProxy.transact(Native Method)
at android.view.IWindowSession$Stub$Proxy.add(IWindowSession.java:569)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.setView(ViewRootImpl.java:538)
... 16 more
android.os.TransactionTooLargeException
at android.os.BinderProxy.transact(Native Method)
at android.view.IWindowSession$Stub$Proxy.add(IWindowSession.java:569)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.setView(ViewRootImpl.java:538)
at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:406)
at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:320)
at android.view.WindowManagerImpl$CompatModeWrapper.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:152)
at android.view.Window$LocalWindowManager.addView(Window.java:557)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleResumeActivity(ActivityThread.java:2897)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2245)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$600(ActivityThread.java:139)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1262)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4977)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
It seems to be related with views? How is this related to remote procedure call?
Maybe important: Android version: 4.0.3, Device: HTC One X
I encountered this issue, and I found that when there huge amount of data getting exchanged between a service and an application,(This involves transferring lots of thumbnails). Actually data size was around 500kb, and the IPC transaction buffer size is set to 1024KB. I am not sure why it exceeded the transaction buffer.
This also can occur, when you pass lot of data through intent extras
When you get this exception in your application, please analyze your code.
How to handle when you get this exception
If possible, split the big operation in to small chunks, for example, instead of calling applyBatch() with 1000 operations, call it with 100 each.
Do not exchange huge data (>1MB) between services and application
I dont know how to do this, but, Do not query android, which can return huge data :-)