com.facebook.react.uimanager.IllegalViewOperationException

[henrikra]

Is this a bug report?

Yeah.

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Yeah.

Environment

Environment:
OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1
Node: 8.9.2
Yarn: 1.3.2
npm: 5.5.1
Watchman: 4.7.0
Xcode: Xcode 9.2 Build version 9C40b
Android Studio: 2.3 AI-162.4069837

Packages: (wanted => installed)
react: 16.0.0 => 16.0.0
react-native: 0.50.3 => 0.50.3

Steps to Reproduce

1. Have Android phone
2. Add LayoutAnimation to some of your components
3. App crashes randomly

Expected Behavior

The UIImplementation is trying to add some View which is not there yet.

Actual Behavior

1. Happening only on Android
2. OS versions having this crash so far:
   

Logs:

com.facebook.react.uimanager.IllegalViewOperationException Trying to add unknown view tag: 430 
    UIImplementation.java:396 com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIImplementation.setChildren
    UIManagerModule.java:310 com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIManagerModule.setChildren
    Method.java:-2 java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke
    JavaMethodWrapper.java:363 com.facebook.react.bridge.JavaMethodWrapper.invoke
    JavaModuleWrapper.java:162 com.facebook.react.bridge.JavaModuleWrapper.invoke
    NativeRunnable.java:-2 com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.NativeRunnable.run
    Handler.java:789 android.os.Handler.handleCallback
    Handler.java:98 android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage
    MessageQueueThreadHandler.java:31 com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadHandler.dispatchMessage
    Looper.java:164 android.os.Looper.loop
    MessageQueueThreadImpl.java:194 com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadImpl$3.run
    Thread.java:764 java.lang.Thread.run

Backstory

I have developed with RN for over a year now. And this crash has been there always. Some people say it is related to LayoutAnimation but I have gotten it already before that. Recently there were fix commits to similar issue f2c6877 But I think they don't fix this because looks like the lines that can have this crash are here: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22Trying+to+add%22&type=

This crash has been so long in RN so maybe it would be time to fix it? Tell me if there is anything I could do for help :)

Reproducible Demo

Unfortenately I can't reproduce this on my Android :(

Similar issues:
#13984
#17092
#16412
#14944
#14768
#10745

[a6051529]

Any solution to this problem? It causes random crash on the app.

[mauscoelho]

+1

[linxiaoru]

+1

[hpyfei]

+1

[filipef101]

Having same issue, some times random crash on navigation reset

EDIT: I think it was because I'm using wix navigation (react-native-navigation)
My fork of it has it fixed, check the commit were I did it and patch your repo if you are using it

[DanGDroid]

same here
#15698

[iinsta]

Same:

com.facebook.react.uimanager.IllegalViewOperationException: Trying to add unknown view tag: 170
	at com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIImplementation.setChildren(UIImplementation.java:396)
	at com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIManagerModule.setChildren(UIManagerModule.java:310)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.facebook.react.bridge.JavaMethodWrapper.invoke(JavaMethodWrapper.java:363)
	at com.facebook.react.bridge.JavaModuleWrapper.invoke(JavaModuleWrapper.java:162)
	at com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.NativeRunnable.run(Native Method)
	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:754)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
	at com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadHandler.dispatchMessage(MessageQueueThreadHandler.java:31)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:163)
	at com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadImpl$3.run(MessageQueueThreadImpl.java:194)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:760)

[filipef101]

@iinsta Check my comment I edited above, I don't remember well what caused my issue but should be it

[filipef101]

May also be because you have a modal or lightbox that needs to be dismissed first

[iinsta]

@filipef101 I will try it! And Thank you!

[react-native-bot]

Thanks for posting this! It looks like you may not be using the latest version of React Native, v0.53.0, released on January 2018. Can you make sure this issue can still be reproduced in the latest version?

I am going to close this, but please feel free to open a new issue if you are able to confirm that this is still a problem in v0.53.0 or newer.

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