Resolving Crashes When Using ComposeView Inside RecyclerView

Background

Recently, during a development task, I used ComposeView’s setContent function inside a ViewHolder. Everything seemed to be working fine until another team’s feature was introduced. When a BottomSheet or another Activity was opened, the app crashed.

Crash log

java.lang.IllegalStateException: ViewTreeLifecycleOwner not found

How I Fixed It

Initially, I suspected the ViewCompositionStrategy was the issue. I changed it from the default to DisposeOnDetachedFromWindowOrReleasedFromPool, but that didn’t solve the problem.

The solution was to simply update androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview to version 1.3.1 or higher.

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