Android ICS 4.0 NDK NewStringUTF is crashing down the App

Question

I have a method in JNI C/C++ which takes jstring and returns back jstring some thing like as below,

  NATIVE_CALL(jstring, method)(JNIEnv * env, jobject obj, jstring filename)
  {

// Get jstring into C string format.
  const char* cs = env->GetStringUTFChars (filename, NULL);
  char *file_path = new char [strlen (cs) + 1]; // +1 for null terminator
  sprintf (file_path, "%s", cs);
  env->ReleaseStringUTFChars (filename, cs);


  reason_code = INTERNAL_FAILURE;
  char* info = start_module(file_path);  


  jstring jinfo ;


  if(info==NULL)
  {
      jinfo = env->NewStringUTF(NULL);
  }
  else
  {
      jinfo = env->NewStringUTF(info);

  }


  delete info;

  info = NULL;
  return jinfo;
  }

The code works perfectly with prior android 4.0 versions like 2.2,2.3 and so on. With ICS 4.0 check JNI is on by default and because of it the app crashes throwing the following error

 08-25 22:16:35.480: W/dalvikvm(24027): **JNI WARNING: input is not valid Modified UTF-8: illegal  continuation byte 0x40**
08-25 22:16:35.480: W/dalvikvm(24027):              
08-25 22:16:35.480: W/dalvikvm(24027): ==========
08-25 22:16:35.480: W/dalvikvm(24027): /tmp/create
08-25 22:16:35.480: W/dalvikvm(24027): ==========
08-25 22:16:35.480: W/dalvikvm(24027): databytes,indoorgames,drop
08-25 22:16:35.480: W/dalvikvm(24027): ==========���c_ag����ϋ@�ډ@�����@'
 08-25 22:16:35.480: W/dalvikvm(24027):              in Lincom/inter       /ndk/comNDK;.rootNDK:(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String; **(NewStringUTF)**
08-25 22:16:35.480: I/dalvikvm(24027): "main" prio=5 tid=1 NATIVE
08-25 22:16:35.480: I/dalvikvm(24027):   | group="main" sCount=0 dsCount=0 obj=0x40a4b460   self=0x1be1850
08-25 22:16:35.480: I/dalvikvm(24027):   | sysTid=24027 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=1074255080
08-25 22:16:35.490: I/dalvikvm(24027):   | schedstat=( 49658000 26700000 48 ) utm=1 stm=3 core=1
08-25 22:16:35.490: I/dalvikvm(24027):   at comrootNDK(Native Method)

I am clueless as to where i am wrong. If you see above NewStringUTF is adding some garbage value to the c Char* bytes .

1. Any idea about why this is happening
2. Any alternative solution to achieve the above is welcome

I really appreciate if one of you can help me in . Thanks in advance

regds me

Answer 1

I resolved this issue by returning byte array instead of String. On the Java side i am now converting the Byte array to Strings .Works fine! Stay away from using NewStringUTF() for Android 4.0 and above as there is already a bug reported on Google Android NDK.