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Preparation

1. Install Android Studio, SDK and NDK, including build tools and platform tools.
2. Ensure android-sdk/tools and android-sdk/platform-tools are on your PATH
3. Build the app with: BUILDTYPE=Debug make android
4. Connect your device via USB
5. Check you can connect to the device by running adb shell. You should get the terminal from your device.
6. Exit with exit

Extract system binaries from device

(You will need to do this for every device and every Android OS version)

1. Create a folder to hold the Android system binaries locally e.g. ~/android
2. cd into the folder
3. Create a system_lib and vendor_lib folder
4. cd system_lib
5. adb pull /system/lib
6. cd ../vendor_lib
7. adb pull /vendor/lib. If you get permissions error you will need to get a list of each file and folder in adb shell then copy each file one at a time with adb pull /vendor/lib/file
8. cd ..
9. adb pull /system/bin/app_process (or on 64 bit phones adb pull /system/bin/app_process32 and adb pull /system/bin/app_process64)
10. adb pull /system/bin/linker (and on 64 bit phones adb pull /system/bin/linker64)

Install GDB server

1. Go to the NDK folder.
2. Copy gdbserver from android-ndk/prebuilt/android-arm/gdbserver/gdbserver to mapbox-gl-native/android/java/MapboxGLAndroidSDK/src/main/jniLibs/armeabi-v7a/gdbserver.soIMPORTANT it must be renamed a .so file
3. Build and run the app in Android Studio
4. Android studio will copy and install the APK with gdbserver in it to your device

Start the app paused

1. Open the project in Android Studio
2. Place a breakpoint in Java class NativeMapView constructor on nativeCreate line
3. Start app with Run -> Debug
4. Wait for app to start and hit breakpoint
5. Open up logcat and look for output from app
6. Note the process ID e.g. in 11-08 19:25:52.957 31834-31834/com.mapbox.mapboxgl.app V/FragmentActivity﹕ onCreate it is 31834

Start gdbserver

1. Open a terminal
2. Run adb forward tcp:5039 localfilesystem:/data/data/com.mapbox.mapboxgl.testapp/debug-pipe
3. Run adb shell run-as com.mapbox.mapboxgl.testapp /data/data/com.mapbox.mapboxgl.testapp/lib/gdbserver.so +debug-pipe --attach 31834. Replace 31834 with the process ID from earlier. (You will need to do this each time you restart the app as the PID will change)

If you get the error `then you have a version of Android not compatible withadb run-as`. See [this page] for information. It appears to affect Android updates in 4.2.2, 4.3, 5.0, 5.1.1. Workaround appears to be to load a fresh image.

You should see: Attached; pid = 31834 Listening on sockaddr socket debug-socket

1. Leave the terminal open

Start gdb

1. Open another terminal
2. Go to the NDK folder android-ndk/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.9/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin
3. On OSX use android-ndk/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.9/prebuilt/darwin-x86_64/bin
4. Run ./arm-linux-androideabi-gdb ~/android/app_process
5. target remote :5039
6. In GDB: set solib-search-path ~/android/:~/android/system_lib:~/android/vendor_lib:~/android/vendor_lib/egl:~/path/to/mapbox-gl-native/build/android-arm-v7/Debug/lib.target/
7. Check that all the debug symbols were loaded with info sharedlibrary
8. Check each .so has Yes (*) except for the last libmapbox-gl.so which must have only Yes i.e. (no star). If not double check your solib-search-path
9. b jni.cpp:183 (the first line of nativeCreate)
10. c
11. Switch to Android Studio
12. Click Run -> Resume Program
13. Switch back to GDB. It should be paused at nativeCreate
14. GDB now has control, so c will continue execution (set breakpoints first) Note: If you encounter this crash:

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.0x7956a3a8 in _armv7_tick () from /home/leith/dev/mapbox-gl-native-mason/build/android/out/Debug/lib.target/libmapbox-gl.so(gdb) bt#0  0x7956a3a8 in _armv7_tick () from /home/leith/dev/mapbox-gl-native-mason/build/android/out/Debug/lib.target/libmapbox-gl.so#1  0x795d1ccc in OPENSSL_cpuid_setup () from /home/leith/dev/mapbox-gl-native-mason/build/android/out/Debug/lib.target/libmapbox-gl.so#2  0x400bd9c6 in ?? () from /home/leith/dev/android/linker#3  0x400bda9e in ?? () from /home/leith/dev/android/linker#4  0x400bdbf0 in ?? () from /home/leith/dev/android/linker#5  0x400bdc6e in ?? () from /home/leith/dev/android/linker#6  0x400bc1a6 in _start () from /home/leith/dev/android/linker#7  0x41643c86 in dvmLoadNativeCode(char const*, Object*, char**) () from /home/leith/dev/android/system_lib/libdvm.so#8  0x416600f4 in ?? () from /home/leith/dev/android/system_lib/libdvm.so#9  0x41613ee8 in dvmJitToInterpNoChain () from /home/leith/dev/android/system_lib/libdvm.so#10 0x41613ee8 in dvmJitToInterpNoChain () from /home/leith/dev/android/system_lib/libdvm.soBacktrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)

You just need to c past it to the real crash. From https://bugs.launchpad.net/raspbian/+bug/1154042:

Afaict openssl probes the capabilities of the user‘s CPU by trying to do things and trapping the illegal instruction errors. So a couple of sigills during startup is normal. When using a debugger in order to find the real failure in your application you must continue past the startup sigills. 14. Use GDB commands to debug

Read http://condor.depaul.edu/glancast/373class/docs/gdb.html for GDB commands