Carte Vitale App calls to ML Kit leads to crash at startup on GrapheneOS

Aru

I'm trying to use the Carte Vitale App (French Social Security) from the Play Store but it doesn't even open on GrapheneOS. Tried it on 2 different pixel phones (mine, P6 and a coworker's P7a), both crash. Checking the logs, seems like it's trying to use ML Kit but fails.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.sesamvitale.cartevitale.app

Snippets from the log file :

FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: fr.sesamvitale.cartevitale.app, PID: 4574
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 888364512 byte allocation with 25165824 free bytes and 253MB until OOM, target footprint 27684464, growth limit 268435456

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider com.google.mlkit.common.internal.MlKitInitProvider: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: length=11641226; index=-1

Is there anything I can do to make it work?

grayway2

Aru no. You can contact the devs and maybe convince them to whitelist GrapheneOS but I guess it's gonna be complicated if not impossible (French government app)

carboneos

Doesn't work for me either
They should have added the carte vitale to the France identité app instead

carboneos

grayway2

France Identité app works perfectly fine on grapheneos

Aru

grayway2 I tried different ways: 1 star review with comments, email, contact via Ameli app... So far they won't reply or give me basic instructions on how to setup the app. But they won't ask me what's wrong or even read what I wrote...

grayway2

carboneos did you try the app on stock os with android 15 ?

fid02

I can reproduce the issue on GrapheneOS. It launches fine on stock PixelOS.

Play services and Play Store have Network access. The app is installed from Play Store in the owner profile.

Description of the behaviour
The app crashes about 1 sec after it's launched.

Version info
App version 5.12.4

Pixel 8
GrapheneOS 2025041100
Play Store 45.4.26-31
Play services 25.10.36
Gmscompatconfig 156

Pixel 6a
PixelOS BP1A.250405.007

Steps to reproduce

Install the app from Play Store
Open the app

What has been attempted so far without luck

Enabled "exploit protection compatibility mode" and Webview JIT for the app and relaunched it
Disabled secure app spawning, disabled "exploit protection compatibility mode" for the app, rebooted the phone and relaunched the app

Log

type: crash
osVersion: google/shiba/shiba:15/BP1A.250405.007.B1/2025041100:user/release-keys
package: fr.sesamvitale.cartevitale.app:1250325005, targetSdk 34
process: fr.sesamvitale.cartevitale.app
processUptime: 316 + 62 ms
installer: com.android.vending

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider com.google.mlkit.common.internal.MlKitInitProvider: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: length=44733573; index=-1
	at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:8553)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.installContentProviders(ActivityThread.java:8063)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:7721)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleBindApplication(Unknown Source:0)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2509)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:109)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:232)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:317)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8973)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:591)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:927)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: length=44733573; index=-1
	at com.google.mlkit.common.internal.MlKitInitProvider.onCreate(:606)
	at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:2677)
	at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:2646)
	at com.google.mlkit.common.internal.MlKitInitProvider.attachInfo(:3)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:8548)
	... 11 more

grayway2

Aru I'm not an expert but I tried to understand what is wrong and my conclusion (which might be totally inaccurate) is that some dependencies are missing and are the cause of the crash.

Did they forget it or it was specifically made that way ? I can't answer but since they don't even try to respond just forget that app for now.

Remember that many years ago you were living normally with the physical card so you don't really need the app to use a digital version.

Aru

It's a dependency that is missing on GrapheneOS more likely, because it works on stock OS. Yeah, no choice but to leave it for now.

GrapheneOS

Aru Eirikr70 No, that's incorrect. ML Kit works on GrapheneOS via sandboxed Google Play.

Eirikr70

I try to write to them also. I suppose MLkit is a proprietary Google AI component that has no equivalent in GrapheneOS. So I am afraid that the app will never be made available to us.

soupslurpr

Eirikr70 check the reviews, it's broken on Android 15 QPR2 in general, not just GrapheneOS

Aru

soupslurpr I checked a couple dozen of reviews, didn't see anyone mention that but good if true.

froth8449

exact same error on mine.