Unchecked JNI exceptions abort the Android translation layer
Pending JNI exceptions abort the whole process under CheckJNI, so one thrown Java exception crashes WhatsApp instead of being handled.
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4 public reports · first reported 13 August 2026 · last reported 13 August 2026
What's going wrong
In the android_translation_layer project, which lets Android apps run on Linux, some native C code calls Java methods through JNI and then leaves a Java exception pending.
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