Google Maps SDK is crashing

Here&#x27;s what the Whistle (dog tracking app that uses the Google Maps SDK) just sent everybody via email:<p>&gt; &quot;Hi William, We have identified an issue stemming from an outage with Google Maps that is causing the Whistle app to immediately crash upon opening. Our team is aware of the issue and monitoring the situation closely. While there is no estimated time for resolution from Google, rest assured that the safety of Bella is still our top priority. Please keep Bella close for the time being. [...]&quot;

Oh man this is going to be rough if it keeps the corrupted data in a local cache. Cache probably won’t get refreshed before previous contents get parsed, and parsing the data crashes the app.

Looks like you have to hit &quot;Clear Storage&quot; on Android in order to get it working again (tested it with Uber). That is, not the cache, but the actual application data. I.e. this will require users to wipe any data being locally stored and log back in again. This is pretty bad.<p>Edit: Google has confirmed this is the case <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;issuetracker.google.com&#x2F;issues&#x2F;154855417#comment181" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;issuetracker.google.com&#x2F;issues&#x2F;154855417#comment181</a> but apparently the data will be invalidated within a few hours.

That explains why Doordash and UberEats were both crashing for me earlier today. Was wondering what was going on, seemed like quite a coincidence.

Try opening Lyft on iOS, hard crash on boot. I don&#x27;t wish to be someone working on that right now!

Aha. I just loaded up the Samsung Health app for the first time in forever and it would crash everytime it tried to grab location for a tracked run. I tried rolling back and and reinstalling and presumed it was an app bug. Ended up uninstalling because there wasn&#x27;t much info to investigate.<p>Reluctantly installed Strava and they mentioned an ongoing issue with Google maps - but it seemed to display and record fine.

Ah, this is why my Doordash mobile client started crashing. I was wondering...

Any chance we could get the link changed to something that doesn&#x27;t have a Google loginwall? I&#x27;m not going to sign in to a Google account to <i>read</i> a bug report.

Reminder to think of your application as a system composed of many sub-systems, where any sub-system can fail at any time. Plan for this, engineer for this.

I have heard that this applies to both iOS and Android, by the way.

No-one is good anywhere, why is it crashing ;)

seems to be fixed, but if you&#x27;ve had the crash you have to Clear Storage or you&#x27;ll keep crashing

Uber and Lyft crash for me on Android.

i mean it&#x27;s not the SDK that&#x27;s crashing right, the service changed somehow.