A couple of months ago I updated my game to Unity 6.0 in hopes of fixing a couple of strange crash bugs that started to become more common on newer versions of Android. That worked very well and crashes are lower than ever. But, I have now started getting ANRs instead, which seem unrelated to the c…

Hey, we forwarded this report to Google. Thank you

Much appreciated! I am guessing that means it’s acting up somewhere in GameActivity-land and not due to something I’m doing?

[Screenshot-2025-09-05-110109] I’m going to try swapping back to Activity and see how it goes. Will report back here in a few weeks. In the meantime, here’s the crash/anr graphs before and after the switch. quite a difference, good and bad!

It’s such a perfect one-to-one matching between the drop and the rise, I’d say that the only thing that happened after your upgrade is that something began locking up instead of crashing. That steadily rising slope sure feels like something external very gradually starting to give you more issues o…

I’m having similar errors too. As you said, and as I can find, it is probably going to be solved with Activity instead of GameActivity, but I’ll keep tracking it. If you find any other fix for this, please let me know.

Is it solved after swapping back to Activity?

Yes it solves. You also need to delete and regenerate your library after this to build. Sorry, I forgot to come back to the thread and say it.

Sorry this took so long, getting the build out took forever and then I got distracted along the way. Anyway, switching back to regular Activity seems to have entirely eliminated the ANR issues, I am however seeing some crashes instead. All in engine code so I’ll have to keep an eye on that.

The common OnPause ANRs seems to go away after upgrading to game activity 4.4.0. While rarer, but another game activity issue exists with OnDestroy. Enable the ‘Don’t keep activities’ device developer setting to see it. If you pause the app in production, the android OS may decide to destroy it to…

ANR in OnPause with GameActivity

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Endahs October 19, 2025, 12:53pm 10

We’re also seeing crazy ANRs after switching to GameActivity. We’re rolling back.

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ANR in OnPause with GameActivity

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