Describe the bug

Opening the Earn onboarding screen on Android causes the app to crash approximately 50% of the time, with no user interaction required. Symptom: navigate to the Money/Earn tab, the Rive animation fails to appear, and ~0.2-0.5 seconds later the app aborts via a native SIGABRT. Same rive-react-native library bug as Issue #31166, but triggered during initial mount/render rather than on close.

The screen mounts and the Rive component begins loading, but Android's SurfaceView lifecycle releases the Surface during the navigation transition. The Rive worker thread is mid-frame and calls Surface.unlockCanvasAndPost(), which throws IllegalStateException. Rive's exception handler then calls RiveLogD → MakeJString → NewStringUTF without first clearing the pending Java exception, violating ART's JNI rules and aborting the process.

JS-side mitigations attempted (deferring Rive mount via InteractionManager.runAfterInteractions) did not eliminate the crash, suggesting the Surface lifecycle issue is outside the React tree's control

Expected behavior

Opening the Earn onboarding screen should reliably display the Rive animation and allow the user to step through onboarding without crashing.

Screenshots/Recordings

Steps to reproduce

1. Fresh install of the app (or a state where Earn onboarding has not yet been seen) on an arm64 Android device or emulator
2. Complete primary onboarding through to wallet home
3. Tap the Money / Earn tab
4. ~50% of the time: the Rive animation fails to load; app aborts within ~0.2-0.5 seconds
5. The other ~50%: animation loads normally and the user can interact (but tapping X then crashes, see Issue

Error messages or log output

Abort message: 'JNI DETECTED ERROR IN APPLICATION: JNI NewStringUTF called with pending exception java.lang.Throwable:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Surface has already been released.
    android.view.Surface.checkNotReleasedLocked(Surface.java:876)
    android.view.Surface.unlockCanvasAndPost(Surface.java:575)
(Throwable with empty stack trace)
    in call to NewStringUTF'

backtrace:
  #00 abort
  #01 art::Runtime::Abort
  #08 art::CheckJNI::NewStringUTF
  #09 rive_android::MakeJString
  #11 rive_android::RiveLogD
  #12 rive_android::DetachThread
  #13 rive_android::JNIExceptionHandler::check_and_rethrow
  #14 rive_android::JNIExceptionHandler::CallVoidMethod
  #15 rive_android::CanvasWorkerImpl::flush
  #16 rive_android::WorkerImpl::doFrame
  #18 rive_android::WorkerThread::threadMain

Where was this bug found?

Internal release testing

Version

7.81.0

Build number

4823

Build type

None

Device

• Galaxy A32 (Android 13, arm64)
• Pixel 9 Pro XL emulator (Android, arm64)

Operating system

Android

Additional context

onboarding.txt

Severity

No response