# Issue in using WowzPlayerView in android to play live stream
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/issue-in-using-wowzplayerview-in-android-to-play-live-stream/51680
**Category:** Wowza GoCoder SDK
**Created:** [July 25, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/issue-in-using-wowzplayerview-in-android-to-play-live-stream/51680 "2018-07-25T13:00:57Z")
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### Author:  [@Sumit\_Chouksey](https://community.wowza.com/u/Sumit_Chouksey)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/issue-in-using-wowzplayerview-in-android-to-play-live-stream/51680/1 "2018-07-25T13:00:57Z")
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: com.sportsapp.ssp, PID: 5418 java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid surface: null at com.wowza.gocoder.sdk.api.gles.EglCore.createWindowSurface(GoCoderSDK:225) at com.wowza.gocoder.sdk.api.gles.EglSurfaceBase.createWindowSurface(GoCoderSDK:58) at com.wowza.gocoder.sdk.api.gles.WindowSurface.(GoCoderSDK:39) at com.wowza.gocoder.sdk.api.player.WOWZPlayerView.clear(GoCoderSDK:545) at com.wowza.gocoder.sdk.api.player.WOWZPlayerView.a(GoCoderSDK:826) at com.wowza.gocoder.sdk.api.player.WOWZPlayerView.play(GoCoderSDK:900) at com.sportsapp.ssp.ViewD101Activity.lambda$onCreate$1$ViewD101Activity(ViewD101Activity.java:209) at com.sportsapp.ssp.ViewD101Activity$Lambda$1.onEvent(Unknown Source) at com.google.firebase.firestore.DocumentReference.zza(Unknown Source) at com.google.firebase.firestore.zzd.onEvent(Unknown Source) at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzevc.zza(Unknown Source) at com.google.android.gms.internal.zzevd.run(Unknown Source) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6123) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:867) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:757)
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### Author:  [@Vasily\_Enot](https://community.wowza.com/u/Vasily_Enot)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/issue-in-using-wowzplayerview-in-android-to-play-live-stream/51680/2 "2018-07-30T20:40:19Z")
Same here. Have you found any solution?