Crash on latest React Native

[RohovDmytro]

It's uneasy to reproduce and best I have so far is noticing that this component occasionally crashes the app on Android.

<Portal>
  <LoadingIndicator />
</Portal>

The crash:

Process: com.snapdone, PID: 14949
java.lang.IllegalStateException: EdgeToEdgeReactViewGroup contains null child at index 1 when traversal in dispatchGetDisplayList, the view may have been removed.
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4524)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ViewGroup.recreateChildDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4556)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4529)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ViewGroup.recreateChildDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4556)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4529)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ViewGroup.recreateChildDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4556)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4529)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ViewGroup.recreateChildDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4556)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4529)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ViewGroup.recreateChildDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4556)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4529)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ViewGroup.recreateChildDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4556)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4529)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ViewGroup.recreateChildDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4556)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4529)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ViewGroup.recreateChildDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4556)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4529)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ViewGroup.recreateChildDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4556)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4529)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ViewGroup.recreateChildDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4556)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4529)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ViewGroup.recreateChildDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4556)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4529)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ViewGroup.recreateChildDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4556)
at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:4529)
at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:24084)
at android.view.ThreadedRenderer.updateViewTreeDisplayList(ThreadedRenderer.java:694)
at android.view.ThreadedRenderer.updateRootDisplayList(ThreadedRenderer.java:700)
at android.view.ThreadedRenderer.draw(ThreadedRenderer.java:798)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.draw(ViewRootImpl.java:5839)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performDraw(ViewRootImpl.java:5490)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:4474)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:3071)
at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:10659)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:1570)
at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:1579)
at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:1179)
at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:1108)
at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:1553)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:1041)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
at android.os.Looper.dispatchMessage(Looper.java:315)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:251)
2025-09-17 16:52:49.272 14949-14949 AndroidRuntime          com.snapdone                         E  	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:349) (Ask Gemini)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:9041)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:593)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:929)

Deps:

• "react-native": "0.81.4"
• "expo": "54.0.8"
• "react-native-paper": "5.15.5"

Device:

• Google Pixel 7

[RohovDmytro]

Simply removing <Portal /> wrapper across my loading indicators fixes the issues, but it's visually degradation as I rely to have a full screen loading indicator by using Portal component.

[michael-pingo-ai]

Same issue

[ssobkowski]

Do you have React Compiler enabled? I had the same issue, crashing about 50% of the times. I wasn't able to reproduce it, but I eventually was able to narrow it down to conditional renders in the main Stack component, and disabled the react compiler memoization there. Stopped crashing after that.

[grantackerman]

I was facing a similar issue when I was using router.push from a Dialog component within a Portal.

Your app just crashed. See the error below. java.lang.IllegalStateException: RNGestureHandlerRootView contains null child at index 4 when traversal in dispatchGetDisplayList, the view may have been removed.

What fixed it for me was adding a small timeout (300 ms) before navigating. Posting here in case it helps anyone else.