Whatsapp ART support

[scleone1987]

There's a piece of news for all of you ART converters who are waiting for a Whatsapp update (WA currently crashes on ART runtime).
I've sent an email to WA support team to ask when a future update will be available which will solve the fc when running ART.

Here's the reply from the support team:

"Hi,
Thanks for your message. Currently, ART does not support WhatsApp. Since ART is still in beta stage, WhatsApp will continue to run in Dalvik until Android has been fully converted to ART. A bug has been reported to Google regarding this issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. We would be happy to help!".

So, take your own conclusions. Mine is that we will not see any update of any app currently having issues with ART until Android will take it out of the beta stage and will make it the default compiler (Android 5?).

 

[luiseteyo]

There's a piece of news for all of you ART converters who are waiting for a Whatsapp update (WA currently crashes on ART runtime).
I've sent an email to WA support team to ask when a future update will be available which will solve the fc when running ART.

Here's the reply from the support team:

"Hi,
Thanks for your message. Currently, ART does not support WhatsApp. Since ART is still in beta stage, WhatsApp will continue to run in Dalvik until Android has been fully converted to ART. A bug has been reported to Google regarding this issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. We would be happy to help!".

So, take your own conclusions. Mine is that we will not see any update of any app currently having issues with ART until Android will take it out of the beta stage and will make it the default compiler (Android 5?).

Bad news...

 

[FrankBullitt]

So, according to the devs of whatsapp, ART doesn't support their app... Do they understand what a runtime environment means? I'm guessing someone is laughing hard at the Google offices with the bug they've "reported".
"Yep, we're going to modify our runtime environment because their app doesn't run with it.".

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[mananbond007]

Damn... now gotta wait for app compatibility to enjoy ART...

 

[philipepi]

let me put this here...

 

[FrankBullitt]

Shah, exactly. It's like asking Linus to change Linux so it can run Outlook 2013.

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[richteralan]

Seriously I don't get why people like Whatsapp.

There are many alternative out there such as Viber or Line which provides better interface and actually adhere to Google guidelines.

 

[Nezam]

ehh.. whats ART?

Sent from my Nexus⁴ running franco kernel

 

[Rapier07]

ehh.. whats ART?

Sent from my Nexus⁴ running franco kernel

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=android+ART

 

[kowcop]

I read somewhere that an old version works and the new one doesn't because of the included libs.. I don't use whatapp, but couldn't someone just grab the latest APK, open it in 7zip and remove the libs?

 

[zorkek]

Seriously I don't get why people like Whatsapp.

me too, I've to use it just because all my friends are using it. I wish everyone could use hangouts (never had a crash here), but unfortunately the iOS version is kinda slow (on iphone4 at least).

it looks like WA team is really lazy, look at the iOS version! iOS7 was released to developers months ago and still, it has the iOS6 interface lol.
I'm afraid the same is gonna happens here for the Dalvik/ART switch.

hope I'm wrong ofc.

 

[hermanherz]

I read somewhere that an old version works and the new one doesn't because of the included libs.. I don't use whatapp, but couldn't someone just grab the latest APK, open it in 7zip and remove the libs?

I just tried, doesn't work

 

[Smando]

I think is not a lib problem:

Version 2.10.768(no libs in apk) installs fine but not work, "software too old error"

Version 2.11.12(no libs in apk) error during installation

Version 2.11.93 libs in apk and error during installation

So, we can try to solve "software too old error", a star point can be this class: "com\whatsapp\g.smali"

or we can try to solve the installation error on version 2.11.12, now i'm on dalvik, there is anyone on art can post logcat of installation of 2.11.12?

 

[deepayanneogi]

https://code.google.com/p/android/i...pp&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars

Hope this helps

---------- Post added at 08:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:02 PM ----------

https://code.google.com/p/android/i...pp&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars

Hope this helps

 

[espaciosalter20]

I'll reiterate that this is not the fault of the WhatsApp application. The ART verifier was blocking the installation of this app, but we are going to fix ART to address this issue. I'll update this bug when the fix is in AOSP.

Quoted from google code support...

 

[ajobbins]

I think is not a lib problem:

Version 2.10.768(no libs in apk) installs fine but not work, "software too old error"

I'm getting install failed on for the 2.10.768 APK in ART

 

[teknoraver]

WhatsApp 2.11.135 is out, you may want to give it a try..

 

[qwerp_]

Good news, I manage to get version 2.11.42 running under art. The trick is however, you need to first switch back to dalvik, install it, then switch back to art again.

Go give it a try. Works for me.

One catch, the attach photo from gallery not working, but still can share from gallery to whatsapp, just not from whstsapp to pick from gallery. I can live with that.

The latest version I got running is 2.11.50

 

[wywerny]

WhatsApp 2.11.134 still not working with ART

 

[sidnoit22]

WhatsApp 2.11.134 still not working with ART

New version is out which is 2.11.50