Invalid ViewBinding on quick forward-back navigation in Fragments

[gmk57]

If the Fragment is put in the back stack and then immediately restored with FragmentManager.popBackStack(), ViewBinding still points to old view during onViewCreated.

Here is a sample project to reproduce.

I suppose this is the same bug as in #35, but it is still reproducible with Fragments 1.3.0 and ViewBindingPropertyDelegate 1.4.4. So, as you suggested, I'm opening a new issue.

[kirich1409]

The problem connected to work of Fragment ViewLifecycle. The delegate use it's callback to clear value, but if the are not called, you will have the old value

[gmk57]

As midery pointed out, this is caused by mainHandler.post { viewBinding = null } in LifecycleViewBindingProperty.clear(). Calling viewBinding = null synchronously eliminates the bug.

[dmitryskorbovenko]

I just want to add that LeakCanary reports leaks because of mainHandler.post { viewBinding = null } . What the reason was for using mainHandler?

[kirich1409]

That's behaviour was added, because Fragment.onDestroyView() called after Lifecycle.onDestroy()

[gmk57]

Yes, I remember well your article on the subject. But it has this unfortunate side-effect.

[ahulyk]

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[05nelsonm]

This issue is plaguing my application as well.

[d4rken]

@kirich1409 Your awesome blog post in September about leveraging Kotlin's property mechanics inspired me to write similar code, while not as advanced as your library, the mechanism is the same, and I have encountered similar bugs as you. Recently the issue on quick fragment navigation described in this post by @gmk57 .

I've come up with a solution that seems to work for me, maybe this can also work for your library?

https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android/pull/2913

I null the viewBinding before rerunning the initialization if I noticed that the LifeCycle.onDestroy triggered, but the Runnable { viewBinding = null } didn't.

[kirich1409]

@d4rken , I will check your solution. Thanks

[kirich1409]

@d4rken , I've checked the solution, but it will help if getValue() is called. But if not we will have memory leak

[kirich1409]

As a solution for Fragment I've tried

private class FragmentViewBindingProperty<in F : Fragment, out T : ViewBinding>(
    viewBinder: (F) -> T
) : LifecycleViewBindingProperty<F, T>(viewBinder) {

    private var fragmentLifecycleCallbacks: FragmentManager.FragmentLifecycleCallbacks? = null

    override fun getValue(thisRef: F, property: KProperty<*>): T {
        registerFragmentLifecycleCallbacks(thisRef)
        return super.getValue(thisRef, property)
    }

    private fun registerFragmentLifecycleCallbacks(fragment: Fragment) {
        if (fragmentLifecycleCallbacks != null) {
            return
        }

        fragmentLifecycleCallbacks = ClearOnDestroy().also { callbacks ->
            fragment.parentFragmentManager
                .registerFragmentLifecycleCallbacks(callbacks, false)
        }
    }

    override fun clear() {
        super.clear()
        fragmentLifecycleCallbacks = null
    }

    override fun getLifecycleOwner(thisRef: F): LifecycleOwner {
        try {
            return thisRef.viewLifecycleOwner
        } catch (ignored: IllegalStateException) {
            error("Fragment doesn't have view associated with it or the view has been destroyed")
        }
    }

    private inner class ClearOnDestroy : FragmentManager.FragmentLifecycleCallbacks() {

        override fun onFragmentDestroyed(fm: FragmentManager, f: Fragment) {
            // Fix for destroying view for case with issue of navigation
            postClear()
        }
    }
}

I don't like that solution, but it must solve the issue with Lifecycle

[gmk57]

Another possible approach is described here, but I haven't tried it yet.