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E/com.facebook.appevents.RestrictiveDataManager: updateRulesFromSetting failed

When I launch my app from Android Studio, with Facebook SDK installed on my device, Xiaomi Mi A2, it triggers the same error trhee times. It does not stop the app, but I don't know if I am missing something or simply, it is not important, but in the end, it is an error and I want to clarify it.
I am using Android Studio 3.4.1, Android 9 on the Xiaomi A2 and the new clause in build.gradle file is implementation 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:5.1.0'. Error has not appeared before upgrading Facebook SDK.
This is what appears in Logcat:
2019-06-24 18:24:31.202 25105-25136/com.myapp
E/com.facebook.appevents.RestrictiveDataManager:
updateRulesFromSetting failed
org.json.JSONException: End of input at character 0 of
at org.json.JSONTokener.syntaxError(JSONTokener.java:449)
at org.json.JSONTokener.nextValue(JSONTokener.java:97)
at org.json.JSONArray.(JSONArray.java:92)
at org.json.JSONArray.(JSONArray.java:108)
at com.facebook.appevents.RestrictiveDataManager.updateFromSetting(RestrictiveDataManager.java:32)
at com.facebook.internal.FetchedAppSettingsManager.parseAppSettingsFromJSON(FetchedAppSettingsManager.java:323)
at com.facebook.internal.FetchedAppSettingsManager.access$000(FetchedAppSettingsManager.java:63)
at com.facebook.internal.FetchedAppSettingsManager$1.run(FetchedAppSettingsManager.java:181)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)

EDIT
The issue has been fixed in version 5.1.1.
Revert to 5.0.3 to get rid of this.
5.1.0 is actually crashing in production at this method (there's a bug report here). GitHub commits of this file show its rather flawed, the method is called from multiple threads concluding to a concurrency crash because it's using a static ArrayList.
Lately the core FB SDK is kinda bloated with useless stuff and low-quality code. The codeless stuff "feature" that simply can't even be turned off is especially a horror to look at. If you don't strictly need the FB SDK in your app, I'd avoid it until they get their shit figured out.

Podio Android SDK item create API call error "Object not found"

I have a problem with the Podio SDK on Android in the following scenario:
I have uploaded an image to Podio from our server in a php script and returned the file_id to my Android app via http. The id seems to be valid, but when i try to create an item using this file_id for an image field value i get the following error messages:
E/Volley: [49051] BasicNetwork.performRequest: Unexpected response code 404 for https://api.podio.com/item/app/17418679
com.podio.sdk.ApiError: {"error_parameters":{},"error_detail":null,"error_propagate":false,"request":{"url":"http:\/\/api.podio.com\/item\/app\/17418679","query_string":"","method":"POST"},"error_description":"Object not found","error":"not_found"}
If i do not attach the image the item create call works fine
I used the newest version of the Podio Android SDK from Github (https://github.com/podio/podio-android) compiled using Android Studio 2.3 and build tools version 25.
I already found an error where the wrong app_id was used, but fixing that still left me with the same message.
This used to work only a few weeks ago, maybe there was change in the API? Do you have any tips on what else could cause this problem? I am using different client id / secret in the php script than in the app, could that be the reason?

Why Android 7 devices show error messages related to native shared libraries

My Android app is using 3rd party library that uses native libraries.
It is built with targetSdkVersion 21.
When running my app on Android 7 phones (in my example, LG G20), users start getting a visible error message upon process initialization.
The error message screenshot is attached.
When running the same app on Android 5.x and 6.x, there is no error shown to the user, although there is still a matching warning message in the log. Log message looks like:
library "/data/app/org.iotivity.base.examples.simpleclient-1/lib/arm/libocstack-jni.so" has invalid DT_NEEDED entry "./obj/local/armeabi/libocprovision.so"
ךibrary "/data/app/org.iotivity.base.examples.simpleclient-1/lib/arm/libocstack-jni.so" has invalid DT_NEEDED entry "./obj/local/armeabi/libocpmapi.so"
So it looks likes Android 7 "decides" to show to the end user a warning which is kept for the log only in previous versions.
I would appreciate:
1. Ideas on how the error message can be suppressed
2. Hints on what is the right solution for the issue (this is a 3rd party code, but I may try to tweak the build process)
Thanks in advance
Max

Invalid API Key from Crashlytics

Updated to Android Studio 1.4 Preview and the new SDK and now I get a:
ERROR - Crashlytics Developer Tools error.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Crashlytics found an invalid API key: null.
I already uninstalled Fabric, Installed it again, and updated Crashlytics from it
Any ideeas what I should do?
This is my build.gradle: http://pastebin.com/VPHpRJte
This is my androidManifest: http://pastebin.com/Nmdeasx8
My API KEY in Manifest:
android:name="com.crashlytics.ApiKey"
android:value="c13e89xxxxxxxxxxxxx1054b4a
In https://fabric.io/settings/organizations/ :
c13e89xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxbf1054b4a

Added the apiKEY inside the crashlytics.properties file like this:
#Contains API Secret used to validate your application. Commit to internal source control; avoid making secret public.
#Wed Jul 16 14:41:00 CEST 2014
apiKey=c13e89c059cxxxxxxxxx32f2d48xxxxxxxa
apiSecret=32192cxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxecf917b5xxxxxx1

I was facing the exact same exception, but I had the key/secret set in the right places.
What happened was I upgraded Android Studio from 1.5 to 2.2, and I started getting this error.
The only way I could get rid of the error was to delete the whole project and git clone it again. After doing this, the project compiled fine.

Unable to find libPluginProtocol.jar while integrating Facebook plugin with Cocos2d-x android on windows

I am trying to integrate facebook using Plugin-x in cocos2d-x v3.5. I followed the following steps:
cd to MyProject/cocos2d/plugin/tools/
./publish.sh - on cygwin all the plugins get published one by one, for eg consider this Flurry trace
atarget dir is /Users/Shivam/Documents/Gautam/FinalWorkingApp/cocos2d/plugin/publish/plugins/flurry
android project dir is /Users/Shivam/Documents/Gautam/FinalWorkingApp/cocos2d/plugin/plugins/flurry/proj.android
Publish plugin for android
~/Documents/Gautam/FinalWorkingApp/cocos2d/plugin/plugins/flurry/proj.android ~/Documents/Gautam/FinalWorkingApp/cocos2d/plugin/tools ~/Documents/Gautam/FinalWorkingApp/cocos2d/plugin/tools
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
BUILD FAILED
/Users/Shivam/Documents/Gautam/android-sdk-macosx/tools/ant/build.xml:542: Unable to resolve project target 'android-7'
Total time: 0 seconds
cp: /Users/Shivam/Documents/Gautam/FinalWorkingApp/cocos2d/plugin/plugins/flurry/proj.android/bin/*.jar: No such file or directory
~/Documents/Gautam/FinalWorkingApp/cocos2d/plugin/tools
~/Documents/Gautam/FinalWorkingApp/cocos2d/plugin/tools
All the plugins get published in the similar manner. I don't have android API 7, because of which it is failing, so can this be the reason my libpluginProtocol.jar is not getting generated?
I see a proper structure under under MyProject/cocos2d/plugin/publish/plugins
I also used gameDevGuide.sh and selected facebook.
Still I don't see libPluginProtocol.jar and libPluginFacebook.jar.
Please help. TIA

Ok so I found the answer. the library gets generated only when you have all the Android APIs viz, 7,8,10,17 and 19 apart from your own target APIs