Backstack management : Restarter must be created only during owner's initialization stage

Question

I am using a bottom navigation bar in my MainActivity to handle some fragments. This is the code used for switching between them:

private val mOnNavigationItemSelectedListener = BottomNavigationView.OnNavigationItemSelectedListener { item ->
    if (item.isChecked &&
        supportFragmentManager.findFragmentById(R.id.act_main_fragment_container) != null
    )
        return@OnNavigationItemSelectedListener false
    val fragment =
        when (item.itemId) {
            R.id.navigation_home      -> fragments[0]
            R.id.navigation_bookings  -> fragments[1]
            R.id.navigation_messages  -> fragments[2]
            R.id.navigation_dashboard -> fragments[3]
            R.id.navigation_profile   -> fragments[4]
            else                      -> fragments[0]
        }
    this replaceWithNoBackStack fragment
    return@OnNavigationItemSelectedListener true
}

the method replaceWithNoBackstack is just a short-hand for this:

supportFragmentManager
    ?.beginTransaction()
    ?.setTransition(FragmentTransaction.TRANSIT_FRAGMENT_OPEN)
    ?.replace(containerId, fragment)
    ?.commit()

The problem is that when i switch faster between them, my app crashes with the following exception:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Restarter must be created only during owner's initialization stage at androidx.savedstate.SavedStateRegistryController.performRestore(SavedStateRegistryController.java:59) at androidx.fragment.app.Fragment.performCreate(Fragment.java:2580) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManagerImpl.java:837) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveFragmentToExpectedState(FragmentManagerImpl.java:1237) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManagerImpl.moveToState(FragmentManagerImpl.java:1302) at androidx.fragment.app.BackStackRecord.executeOps(BackStackRecord.java:439) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManagerImpl.executeOps(FragmentManagerImpl.java:2075) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManagerImpl.executeOpsTogether(FragmentManagerImpl.java:1865) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManagerImpl.removeRedundantOperationsAndExecute(FragmentManagerImpl.java:1820) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManagerImpl.execPendingActions(FragmentManagerImpl.java:1726) at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManagerImpl$2.run(FragmentManagerImpl.java:150) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:789) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:98) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6709) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:769) I've been searching a lot and couldn't find an answer.

I also got this error if I do an API call, put the app in background, wait for the response, and at the time I go back to the app, the app crashes because I am trying to display a dialog fragment immediately (the reason I think this is happening is that the transaction of recreating the fragment when coming back from the background is still in progress at the time of displaying the dialog fragment). I solved this in a hacky way by setting a 500ms delay for the dialog because I couldn't figure out other solutions.

Please ask if you need more details regarding this. Thank you in advance!

POSSIBLE TEMP SOLUTIONS

EDIT I solved this issue by downgrading the app compat depedency to androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.2 but this is just a temporary solution, since i will have to update it in future. I'm hoping someone will figure it out.

EDIT 2 I solved the issue by removing setTransition() from fragment transactions. At least I know the reason why android apps does not have good transitions in general

EDIT 3 Maybe the best solution to avoid this issue and also make things work smoothly is just to use ViewPager to handle bottom bar navigation

Answer 1

If you're using 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.0.2', try changing to 1.0.1

If you're using lifecycle(or rxFragment) and androidx_appcompat:alpha05, try changeing versio.
ex) appcompat : 1.1.0-beta01 or 1.0.2

I think's that it appears as an error when saving the state when the target fragment is reused (onPause-onResume).