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Kosh
Kosh

Reputation: 6334

Unable to create layer for CardView Android Transition

I'm having a really weird issue with Android Transition API. I have a sharedElement an ImageView that I let the OS handle the Transition between these two elements. however I'm having this weird issue as showing in the gif below
One SharedElement

the only element that I'm animating is the AvatarView as you can see, however onBackPressed crash the app with this log 

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to create layer for CardView
at android.os.MessageQueue.nativePollOnce(Native Method)
at android.os.MessageQueue.next(MessageQueue.java:323)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:144)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5845)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:797)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:687)

The code that starts the Activity

first Layout

<com.fastaccess.ui.widgets.AvatarLayout
            android:id="@+id/avatarLayout"
            android:layout_width="48dp"
            android:layout_height="48dp"
            android:transitionName="@string/image_transition"/>

second Layout 

<com.fastaccess.ui.widgets.AvatarLayout
            android:id="@+id/avatarLayout"
            android:layout_width="48dp"
            android:layout_height="48dp"
            android:layout_gravity="top"
            android:transitionName="@string/image_transition"/>

And here is how I start the Transition 

ActivityOptionsCompat options = ActivityOptionsCompat.makeSceneTransitionAnimation(activity,
sharedElement, ViewHelper.getTransitionName(sharedElement));
activity.startActivity(intent, options.toBundle());

No more fancy code after this, except I'm calling supportFinishAfterTransition

Here is another gif but without SharedElement Transition & it does work fine. enter image description here

To be honest the Crash log does not tell much, but i can confirm its due to the Comment TextView is being Large even tho it has nothing to do with the SharedElement but it seems it is the cause to the Crash as per my tests.
It'll be great if anyone has encounter this before and found a way to fix it as i gave up.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2767

Answers (1)

Kosh
Kosh

Reputation: 6334

First Fix Attempting:

setting android:transitionGroup="false" on the RowItem rootLayout itself as if i did set it on the ViewPager or on the RecyclerView the same crash will happen.Another important step was returning false on hasOverlappingRendering() from the custom TextView class. but this causes the ExitTransition to have a flickery background color Another Weird issue I'll be digging more on this & won't accept this answer until i find a solution to the flickery background or someone else has a different approach to fix this.

Edit

The weird background is actually the CardView itself that holds the CommentTextView.

Edit

Actually, the CardView is the actual cause & not the long TextView I'v changed the CardView to LinearLayout as the root element of my row items and removed all the workarounds i did above and everything seems to be working fine. I'v no clue why would it cause the issue, I'm hopping someone could actually help & elaborate on why large CardView would cause this issue.

Upvotes: 2

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