After upgrading the new version, there are a lot of crashes in our release version

[springeye]

hilt version: 2.36
android os: 7.0
compileSdkVersion: 29
buildToolsVersion: "30.0.2"
ndkVersion: "21.3.6528147"
minSdkVersion : 23
targetSdkVersion : 29
android gradle plugin version: 4.2.1

Fatal Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.tiptop.live/com.tiptop.live.ui.view.Main2Activity}: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.app.ContextImpl cannot be cast to android.app.Application
       at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2748)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2813)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.handleRelaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:4651)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap19(ActivityThread.java)
       at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1537)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:110)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:203)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6300)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1076)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:937)

Caused by java.lang.ClassCastException: android.app.ContextImpl cannot be cast to android.app.Application
       at dagger.hilt.android.internal.modules.ApplicationContextModule.provideApplication(ApplicationContextModule.java:45)
       at dagger.hilt.android.internal.modules.ApplicationContextModule_ProvideApplicationFactory.provideApplication(ApplicationContextModule_ProvideApplicationFactory.java:32)
       at com.tiptop.live.DaggerTiptopApplication_HiltComponents_SingletonC$ActivityRetainedCImpl$ActivityCImpl.getHiltInternalFactoryFactory(DaggerTiptopApplication_HiltComponents_SingletonC.java:749)
       at dagger.hilt.android.internal.lifecycle.DefaultViewModelFactories.getActivityFactory(DefaultViewModelFactories.java:56)
       at com.tiptop.live.common.fragment.Hilt_AbstractActivity.getDefaultViewModelProviderFactory(Hilt_AbstractActivity.java:68)
       at androidx.activity.ActivityViewModelLazyKt$viewModels$factoryPromise$1.invoke(ActivityViewModelLazyKt.java:44)
       at com.tiptop.live.ui.view.Main2Activity$special$$inlined$viewModels$default$1.invoke(Main2Activity.java:44)
       at androidx.activity.ActivityViewModelLazyKt$viewModels$factoryPromise$1.invoke(ActivityViewModelLazyKt.java:44)
       at androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelLazy.getValue(ViewModelLazy.java:52)
       at androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelLazy.getValue(ViewModelLazy.java:41)
       at com.tiptop.live.ui.view.Main2Activity.<clinit>(Main2Activity.java:53)
       at com.tiptop.live.ui.view.Main2Activity.onCreate(Main2Activity.java:91)
       at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6700)
       at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1118)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2701)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2813)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.handleRelaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:4651)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap19(ActivityThread.java)
       at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1537)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:110)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:203)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6300)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1076)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:937)

[BAndersonMatjik]

i have problem maybe same but get error at providing context app to room init,but my error more like Fatal Exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Lid//**/Db_ProvideDbFactory; its like not found that factory class but when i search in generated code it have that factory dbmodules

[Chang-Eric]

@Henjue - Can you confirm your previous version of Hilt? Nothing has changed in that area for a while so I'd be surprised if this is related to upgrading the Hilt version. Do you get these crashes more on a specific OS version or anything like that?

Also, does your Application class override attachBaseContext() or getApplicationContext() and do anything with the context there?

[springeye]

@Chang-Eric I can see from firebase that previous versions also have this problem,There are also some custom modules that use.

[springeye]

@Chang-Eric On the problem of getapplicationcontext，i use the lib https://github.com/zeugma-solutions/locale-helper-android

[kishansolanki124]

I am also having this problem after updating dependency.

[Chang-Eric]

I put in a fix that should avoid relying on the getApplicationContext() call, so it should find the Application properly now.

[amarilindra]

Remove override fun getApplicationContext(): Context from your activity or base activity and it should solve the issue. If you are overriding getApplicationContext for Light/Dark theme switching, use baseContext instead of applicationContext