rpandey1234 / covid19tracker

A Robinhood style COVID-19 🦠 Android tracking app for the US. Open source and built with Kotlin.

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covid19tracker's Issues

App crashes due to network issue

Environment Info：
APK Version 1.1 (2).
AndroidOS Version = “6.0.1”，Mobile phone has enough memory.

Description information：
We find that mobile apps are prone to crashes due to a network issue, mainly because successful network API calls return unexpected or no data.
And we found that when this app's network returned data is null or some fields are null (JSON format), a random value or the network request fails (status code is 404/503), or is empty, the app has crashed.

crash information：

Crash One:

crashActivity=edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity
：
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 23174278 byte allocation with 16777216 free bytes and 18MB until OOM
at java.lang.StringFactory.newStringFromChars(Native Method)
at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.toString(AbstractStringBuilder.java:629)
at java.lang.StringBuilder.toString(StringBuilder.java:663)
at org.json.JSONStringer.toString(JSONStringer.java:430)
at org.json.JSONArray.toString(JSONArray.java:586)
at com.InstrumentClass.typeParser.JsonParser.parseAndFuzz(JsonParser.java:44)
at com.InstrumentClass.ResponseParseAndReplace.parseInputStreamAndAddNode(ResponseParseAndReplace.java:714)
at com.InstrumentClass.ResponseParseAndReplace.parseAndReplace(ResponseParseAndReplace.java:439)
at okhttp3.RealCall$AsyncCall.execute(RealCall.java:172)
at okhttp3.internal.NamedRunnable.run(NamedRunnable.java:32)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1113)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:588)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

Crash Two:

crashActivity=edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity
：
java.util.NoSuchElementException: List is empty.
at kotlin.collections.CollectionsKt___CollectionsKt.last(_Collections.kt:372)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity.updateDisplayMetric(MainActivity.kt:157)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity.access$updateDisplayMetric(MainActivity.kt:21)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity$setupEventListeners$3.onCheckedChanged(MainActivity.kt:135)
at android.widget.RadioGroup.setCheckedId(RadioGroup.java:173)
at android.widget.RadioGroup.-wrap0(RadioGroup.java)
at android.widget.RadioGroup$CheckedStateTracker.onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup.java:351)
at android.widget.CompoundButton.setChecked(CompoundButton.java:159)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity.updateDisplayWithData(MainActivity.kt:166)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity.access$updateDisplayWithData(MainActivity.kt:21)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity$onCreate$1.onResponse(MainActivity.kt:62)
at retrofit2.DefaultCallAdapterFactory$ExecutorCallbackCall$1.lambda$onResponse$0$DefaultCallAdapterFactory$ExecutorCallbackCall$1(DefaultCallAdapterFactory.java:89)
at retrofit2.-$$Lambda$DefaultCallAdapterFactory$ExecutorCallbackCall$1$3wC8FyV4pyjrzrYL5U0mlYiviZw.run(lambda)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5539)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:745)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:635)

Crash Three:

crashActivity=edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity
：
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'long java.util.Date.getTime()' on a null object reference
at java.util.Calendar.setTime(Calendar.java:1197)
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.formatImpl(SimpleDateFormat.java:527)
at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.format(SimpleDateFormat.java:829)
at java.text.DateFormat.format(DateFormat.java:314)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity.updateInfoForDate(MainActivity.kt:179)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity.updateDisplayMetric(MainActivity.kt:157)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity.access$updateDisplayMetric(MainActivity.kt:21)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity$setupEventListeners$3.onCheckedChanged(MainActivity.kt:135)
at android.widget.RadioGroup.setCheckedId(RadioGroup.java:173)
at android.widget.RadioGroup.-wrap0(RadioGroup.java)
at android.widget.RadioGroup$CheckedStateTracker.onCheckedChanged(RadioGroup.java:351)
at android.widget.CompoundButton.setChecked(CompoundButton.java:159)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity.updateDisplayWithData(MainActivity.kt:166)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity.access$updateDisplayWithData(MainActivity.kt:21)
at edu.stanford.rkpandey.covid19tracker.MainActivity$onCreate$1.onResponse(MainActivity.kt:62)
at retrofit2.DefaultCallAdapterFactory$ExecutorCallbackCall$1.lambda$onResponse$0$DefaultCallAdapterFactory$ExecutorCallbackCall$1(DefaultCallAdapterFactory.java:89)
at retrofit2.-$$Lambda$DefaultCallAdapterFactory$ExecutorCallbackCall$1$3wC8FyV4pyjrzrYL5U0mlYiviZw.run(lambda)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5539)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:745)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:635)

Finally:
The cause of the program crash may be that the network response data is not handled properly in the code, such as null.
Although this kind of collapse is relatively rare, it is also worthy of attention.
If you have confirmed or fixed this problem, please give me a reply, thank you!

Shifting the graph to the left slightly

On "MAX" level, viewing the chart and its recent development is a bit difficult. I have a screen protector and a case on my phone which makes the very right side of the display unreadable. I would suggest shifting the graph to the left only a little bit for people like me to become more comfortable reading the graph.
Thanks

Values in some graphs are negative

Examples:

• Negative graph for Alaska on April 14th 2020 shows a value of -213
• Deaths graph for Colorado on May 14th 2020 shows a value of -213
• Negative graph for Connecticut on June 23 2020 shows a value of -1,608
• Negative graph for DC on May 24th 2020 shows a value of -11,447

Scrolling too far left causes crash

Steps to repeat:

1. Select Alaska in state drop down.
2. Drag finger to left side of graph past March 11th and the app crashes.

This doesn't appear to be a problem for the nationwide graphs.