Android : Overcome System.loadlibrary(); issue about java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkerror

Question

I am working on APV pdf reader. I am facing System.loadLibrary("pdfview2"); error. It's giving java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkerror.
How to fix this issue? I installed Android-NDK also, but not getting how to load native libraries. Full confusion. Please suggest me a way to fix this issue.

09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537): java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at cx.hell.android.pdfview.OpenFileActivity.getPDF(OpenFileActivity.java:541)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at cx.hell.android.pdfview.OpenFileActivity.startPDF(OpenFileActivity.java:502)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at cx.hell.android.pdfview.OpenFileActivity.onCreate(OpenFileActivity.java:219)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537): Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Couldn't load pdfview2: findLibrary returned null
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(Runtime.java:429)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:554)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     at cx.hell.android.lib.pdf.PDF.<clinit>(PDF.java:25)
09-26 12:51:44.243: E/AndroidRuntime(2537):     ... 16 more

Hi i attached the log report .its giving :- Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Couldn't load pdfview2: findLibrary returned null

Answer 1

Make sure that you have libpdfview2.so in your libs folder..

http://code.google.com/p/apv/issues/detail?id=42
Android - 'Couldn't load Foo: findLibrary returned null'

Answer 2

After building your project, look in the libs/ folder for the resulting .so. If you're building for ARM, is there an armeabi or armeabi-v7a folder with your .so in it? You can set the architectures you want to support in jni/Application.mk with the APP_ABI variable.

APP_ABI := armeabi armeabi-v7a x86 mips

will build your library for all of the possible supported architectures.

Don't forget that Android's dynamic linker is dumb and won't load library dependencies automatically. If you're using C++ code with gnustl_shared, for example, you'll need to load that before any libraries that are linked against it.

static {
    System.loadLibrary("gnustl_shared");
    System.loadLibrary("a_cplusplus_library");
}

Answer 3

Another reason for this failure, in my experience, is the presence of libs/armeabi and not libs/armeabi-v7a. Copy the contents of libs/armeabi into a new folder named libs/armeabi-v7a.

Answer 4

1- make sure name of native function Java_package_className_methodName

2- APP_ABI := all64 //defined in jni/Application.mk