Package manager has died
android, android-intent
Solution
I ran into this error a while ago with the same user input. Though my thrown event was different. I ended up catching the exception and reporting back the user gracefully that there were too many apps installed with the ability to handle . Out of several hundred thousand installs I have only seen this error off-handedly less than five times for a project, I know that isn't an excuse but some devices just don't have the heap to handle indexing the intents of each application installed on the device.
Problem
I got mail from a user who has a lot of apps installed that he has problems when my app gathers activity info with this code: ``` getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(mAinIntent, 0) ``` whole source here: https://github.com/ligi/FAST this is what happens ``` Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Package manager has died at android.app.ApplicationPackageManager.queryIntentActivities(ApplicationPackageManager.java:479) at org.ligi.fast.BaseAppGatherAsyncTask.doInBackground(BaseAppGatherAsyncTask.java:34) at org.ligi.fast.BaseAppGatherAsyncTask.doInBackground(BaseAppGatherAsyncTask.java:1) at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:287) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:305) ... 5 more Caused by: android.os.TransactionTooLargeExceptionTransactionTooLargeException at android.os.BinderProxy.transact(Native Method) at android.content.pm.IPackageManager$Stub$Proxy.queryIntentActivities(IPackageManager.java:2230) at android.app.ApplicationPackageManager.queryIntentActivities(ApplicationPackageManager.java:473) ... 9 more Log: 0 D: Writing unhandled exception to: /data/data/org.ligi.fast/files/3.7-1364933885194.tracedroid ``` there seems to be a problem that I am running against the 1mb border, but how to get out of there? How else can I get the needed info? Is there a way to chunk up the data?