Facebook ProfilePictureView causing FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION

Question

Been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my app keeps crashing, I've nailed it down to having this in my main activities layout XML.

<com.facebook.login.widget.ProfilePictureView
                        android:id="@+id/pp"
                        android:layout_gravity="center"
                        android:layout_height="match_parent"
                        android:layout_width="match_parent">
                    </com.facebook.login.widget.ProfilePictureView>

Whenever I have this in my main activity layout, and I try to create any new intents (new activities, facebook sign in or requesting permissions) My app crashed with a FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION and TransactionTooLargeException.

This continues to happen when I remove the profile picture code in the activity class. It seems to be the view appearing that's casing this but I cannot think why.

This occurs not on my main testign device, but on all emulators and other devices Ive tried.

stacktrace

03-13 15:29:21.347 28962-28962/uk.co.claytapp.taggerbath E/JavaBinder: !!! FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION !!!  (parcel size = 1443592)
03-13 15:29:21.348 28962-28962/uk.co.claytapp.taggerbath D/AndroidRuntime: Shutting down VM
03-13 15:29:21.348 28962-28962/uk.co.claytapp.taggerbath E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
                                                                           Process: uk.co.claytapp.taggerbath, PID: 28962
                                                                       java.lang.RuntimeException: android.os.TransactionTooLargeException: data parcel size 1443592 bytes
                                                                           at android.app.ActivityThread$StopInfo.run(ActivityThread.java:3752)
                                                                           at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751)
                                                                           at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
                                                                           at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
                                                                           at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6077)
                                                                           at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
                                                                           at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:865)
                                                                           at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:755)
                                                                        Caused by: android.os.TransactionTooLargeException: data parcel size 1443592 bytes
                                                                           at android.os.BinderProxy.transactNative(Native Method)
                                                                           at android.os.BinderProxy.transact(Binder.java:615)
                                                                           at android.app.ActivityManagerProxy.activityStopped(ActivityManagerNative.java:3606)
                                                                           at android.app.ActivityThread$StopInfo.run(ActivityThread.java:3744)
                                                                           at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751) 
                                                                           at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) 
                                                                           at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154) 
                                                                           at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6077) 
                                                                           at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
                                                                           at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:865) 
                                                                           at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:755)

Did you already encounter this question? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11451393/what-to-do-on-transactiontoolargeexception — Ruben Aalders, Mar 13 '17 at 15:42
I have, yet I am not sending any info to or from a service I am aware of. I am not even requesting any profile pictures in the view. The view is not initialized in code anywhere. But whenever I have the view in the layout, and try any new intents or permission requests, I get this error. I do not know what is filling the parcel or where it is. — Sam, Mar 13 '17 at 15:46

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 24 '17 at 06:04

This most likely happens in the onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) method of the activity you are navigating away from.

To fix it, add android:saveEnabled="false" to your ProfilePictureView like so:

    <com.facebook.login.widget.ProfilePictureView
        android:id="@+id/profilePicture"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:saveEnabled="false"
        facebook:com_facebook_preset_size="normal" />

This will prevent Android to call ProfilePictureView's own onSaveInstanceState method (the view hierarchy is stored by the Activity anyway so it won't hurt).

Facebook ProfilePictureView causing FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION

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