Catching exceptions thrown from native code running on Android

I used to have the same problem, it is true that in android (inside any VM in general when executing native code) if you throw a C++ exception and this one is not caught, the VM dies (If I understood correctly, I think it is your problem). The solution I adopted was to catch any exception in C++ and throw a java exception instead of using JNI. The next code it is a simplified example of my solution. First of all you have a JNI method that catches a C++ exception and then in the try clause the Java exception is annotated.

JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_com_MyClass_foo (JNIEnv *env, jobject o,jstring param)
{
    try
    {
        // Your Stuff
        ...
    }
    // You can catch std::exception for more generic error handling
    catch (MyCxxException e)
    {
        throwJavaException (env, e.what());
    }
}


void throwJavaException(JNIEnv *env, const char *msg)
{
    // You can put your own exception here
    jclass c = env->FindClass("company/com/YourException");

    if (NULL == c)
    {
        //B plan: null pointer ...
        c = env->FindClass("java/lang/NullPointerException");
    }

    env->ThrowNew(c, msg);
}

Note that after a ThrowNew, the native method does not abruptly terminate automatically. That is, control flow returns to your native method, and the new exception is pending at this point. The exception will be thrown after your JNI method is finished.

I hope it was the solution you are looking for.