Android ViewGroup crash: Attempt to read from field 'int android.view.View.mViewFlags' on a null object reference

Question

We have found several cases for this kind of crashes reported by backend logging monitoring. It seems the crashes do not tie to particular UX failure. And from the reports,

Answer 1

Override dispatchDraw method and put in it a try/catch block, like this:

public void dispatchDraw(Canvas c)
    {
        try
        {
            super.dispatchDraw(c);
            return;

        }
        catch(Exception exception)
        {
            return;
        }
    }