Crash for composable preview due to lack of DSN declaration in manifest

[hangduykhiem]

Integration

sentry-android

Build System

Gradle

AGP Version

7.4.0

Proguard

Disabled

Version

6.28.0

Steps to Reproduce

• Install Sentry with Gradle
• Add DNS into Application Manifest
• Write a simple compose preview, for example

@Composable
fun Greeting(name: String, modifier: Modifier = Modifier) {
    Text(
        text = "Hello $name!",
        modifier = modifier
    )
}

@Preview(showBackground = true)
@Composable
fun GreetingPreview() {
    MyApplicationTheme {
        Greeting("Android")
    }
}

• Run this compose preview on the device, and not in the preview panel on Android Studio.

Expected Result

The preview runs normally and we can test our composables on a real device.

Actual Result

The PreviewActivity crashes with the following log

08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider io.sentry.android.core.SentryInitProvider: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: DSN is required. Use empty string to disable SDK.
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:8328)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.installContentProviders(ActivityThread.java:7828)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:7577)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleBindApplication(Unknown Source:0)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2400)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:226)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:313)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8757)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:604)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1067)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: DSN is required. Use empty string to disable SDK.
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at io.sentry.Sentry.initConfigurations(Sentry.java:291)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at io.sentry.Sentry.init(Sentry.java:210)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at io.sentry.Sentry.init(Sentry.java:147)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at io.sentry.android.core.SentryAndroid.init(SentryAndroid.java:89)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at io.sentry.android.core.SentryAndroid.init(SentryAndroid.java:58)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at io.sentry.android.core.SentryInitProvider.onCreate(SentryInitProvider.java:25)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:2522)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:2492)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at io.sentry.android.core.SentryInitProvider.attachInfo(SentryInitProvider.java:43)
08-24 11:17:29.226  2992  2992 E AndroidRuntime: 	at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:8323)

By reading the log, it's quite obvious that the DNS is not declared in the manifest. However, we cannot override the PreviewActivity manifest, which is provided by compose-ui-tooling dependency. Whatever DNS declared in the main Manifest.xml is not read and applied to this manifest.

This seriously hampers our usage of Sentry, since our process requires running composable preview in the device to ensure our quality.

[hangduykhiem]

I tried to reproduce this by creating a new project and adding the dependencies, but it didn't crash. So something must be wrong in our configuration. 🤔

[markushi]

@hangduykhiem Thanks for reaching out! This definitely sounds odd, looks like the preview seems to trigger an Activity init, which itself triggers the creation of all content providers, including our SentryInitProvider.
Did you have any chance to find the root cause?