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A bug that spoke Russian and crashed my app
How do you solve a bug when you can't even see it? This is the story of how I tackled one of the most peculiar bugs I've faced in an Android app.
Some of these changes were driven by community feedback, requesting features that hadn’t been implemented yet: visual improvements, optimization, multi-language support, dependency updates, and fixing the occasional NullPointerException. I won’t comment on whether this breaches privacy or not, but when things go wrong, it’s impractical to ask the user to connect via ADB to their phone, extract traces, and send them to us. The internet wasn’t shedding much light, as everyone seemed to point to causes like file permission issues or sync failures among others.
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