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Saw11
March 5, 2023
Question

Error Loading Zendesk Answer Bot Articles on Android

  • March 5, 2023
  • 11 replies
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We are experiencing an issue with the Answer Bot feature in the Zendesk SDK on Android. Specifically, when users select a suggested article, they receive an error message indicating that the article failed to load. Upon further investigation in logcat, we found that the error message "id info cannot be read from 'com.xxx.xxx/zendesk.answerbot.AnswerBotArticleAc'" is displayed.

This issue does not appear to affect iOS users and is limited to the Android platform.

Our app is currently using

{
api group: 'com.zendesk', name: 'chat', version: '3.3.6'
api group: 'com.zendesk', name: 'answerbot', version: '3.1.0'
api group: 'com.zendesk', name: 'messaging', version: '5.2.5'
api group: 'com.zendesk', name: 'support', version: '5.1.1'
}

11 replies

February 28, 2024

@saw11, did you ever figure this out. @eric27, was there ever a resolution on the Zendesk developer side? I'm experiencing this "Help Center is disabled in your app's settings. Can not continue with the call" message when my app uses the Android Support SDK's `HelpCenterProvider` to load the articles.

https://zendesk.github.io/mobile_sdk_javadocs/supportv2/v301/index.html?zendesk/support/HelpCenterProvider.html

https://developer.zendesk.com/documentation/classic-web-widget-sdks/support-sdk/android/api_providers/

The SDK and article loading are working fine on debug builds of my app's APK. The same app and client ID info are being used on the `debug` and `release` builds. If I have to different Android apps, can they use the same id info? I only have/want one app listed in my account profile at https://my_zendesk_url_here/admin/channels/classic/mobile_sdk. As long as both apps use the same Zendesk URL, App ID, and Client ID information, I don't see why the two apps can't access and load the same Zendesk articles I've written...

@erica26 @maddie12 @mick11 @christopher53 @greg29