The app crashes when I try to open it from the background after a few hours.

[jehad-husein]

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Affected version

1092 nightly

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Leave the app in the background for an hour or two after using it.
2. Then open it from the phone window.
3. The app will crash.

Expected behavior

No response

Actual behavior

No response

Screenshots/Screen recordings

I actually didn't really understand why the app crashed.It most likely crashed when opened in the background or from the phone's window.

Logs

Exception

• User Action: ui error
• Request: ACRA report
• Content Country: BD
• Content Language: bn-
• App Language: en_US
• Service: <unknown_service>
• Timestamp: 2026-01-01T12:06:29.826+06:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe.nightly
• Service: <unknown_service>
• Version: 0.28.0-1092-202601010142
• OS: Linux Itel/S665L-GL/itel-S665L:12/SP1A.210812.016/GL-20240717V518:user/release-keys 12 - 31

Crash log

java.lang.IllegalStateException: ViewHolder views must not be attached when created. Ensure that you are not passing 'true' to the attachToRoot parameter of LayoutInflater.inflate(..., boolean attachToRoot)
	at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView$Adapter.createViewHolder(RecyclerView.java:7891)
	at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.tryGetViewHolderForPositionByDeadline(RecyclerView.java:6969)
	at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.prefetchPositionWithDeadline(GapWorker.java:294)
	at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.flushTaskWithDeadline(GapWorker.java:354)
	at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.flushTasksWithDeadline(GapWorker.java:370)
	at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.prefetch(GapWorker.java:377)
	at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.run(GapWorker.java:408)
	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:938)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:201)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:288)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7996)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:553)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1003)

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 12 It is not rooted.

Affected device model

Itel s23

Additional information

No response

[licaon-kter]

Saw something similar with 0.28.3, Android 16, deleted a playlist item and went back to playlist view

java.lang.IllegalStateException: ViewHolder views must not be attached when created. Ensure that you are not passing 'true' to the attachToRoot parameter of LayoutInflater.inflate(..., boolean attachToRoot)
        at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView$Adapter.createViewHolder(RecyclerView.java:7891)
        at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.tryGetViewHolderForPositionByDeadline(RecyclerView.java:6969)
        at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.prefetchPositionWithDeadline(GapWorker.java:294)
        at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.flushTaskWithDeadline(GapWorker.java:354)
        at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.flushTasksWithDeadline(GapWorker.java:370)
        at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.prefetch(GapWorker.java:377)
        at androidx.recyclerview.widget.GapWorker.run(GapWorker.java:408)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:1070)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:125)
        at android.os.Looper.dispatchMessage(Looper.java:333)
        at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:263)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:367)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:9331)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:566)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:837)

[ShareASmile]

Can you please elaborate your reproduction steps to this crash for developers, older ones were mainly in #10753 and #11278.
Though it's occurrence has decreased manifolds since v0.28.2 by the included fix but still it rarely does crash while doing some particular playlists operations. What are those stringent steps of reproduction? needs to be found out..

[licaon-kter]

Seeing it in 0.28.4 still.

Eg. Deleting a video from a playlist after playing that/a video.

/LE: and 0.28.5 too