expo: `Invalid view returned from registry, expecting EXVideo, got: (null)`

Summary

After moving from expo unimodules to expo modules and updating my expo-av package from 9.1.2 to 12.0.2, I keep getting an intermittent Invalid view returned from registry, expecting EXVideo, got: (null) error:

<Video
  isLooping
  shouldPlay
  resizeMode={'cover'}
  useNativeControls={false}
  source={{
    url: 'http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4',
  }}
/>

I also upgraded a bunch of other packages including react-native. I did not get these errors prior to upgrading my packages. The only other issue I could find #3115 but it didn’t have a resolution.

Managed or bare workflow? If you have `ios/` or `android/` directories in your project, the answer is bare!

bare

What platform(s) does this occur on?

iOS

SDK Version (managed workflow only)

46.0.1

Environment

expo-env-info 1.0.5 environment info:
    System:
      OS: macOS 11.4
      Shell: 5.8 - /bin/zsh
    Binaries:
      Node: 16.16.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
      Yarn: 1.22.18 - ~/.yarn/bin/yarn
      npm: 8.11.0 - /usr/local/bin/npm
      Watchman: 2022.07.04.00 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
    Managers:
      CocoaPods: 1.10.2 - /usr/local/bin/pod
    SDKs:
      iOS SDK:
        Platforms: DriverKit 21.2, iOS 15.2, macOS 12.1, tvOS 15.2, watchOS 8.3
      Android SDK:
        API Levels: 31
        Build Tools: 28.0.3, 29.0.2, 29.0.3, 30.0.3, 31.0.0, 32.0.0, 32.1.0, 33.0.0
        System Images: android-30 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom, android-31 | Intel x86 Atom_64, android-31 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64
    IDEs:
      Android Studio: 2021.2 AI-212.5712.43.2112.8609683
      Xcode: 13.2.1/13C100 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
    npmPackages:
      expo: 46.0.1 => 46.0.1 
      react: ^18.2.0 => 18.2.0 
      react-dom: ^18.2.0 => 18.2.0 
      react-native: ^0.69.3 => 0.69.3 
    npmGlobalPackages:
      expo-cli: 6.0.0
    Expo Workflow: bare

Reproducible demo

I couldn’t set the versions to my package versions so the error isn’t showing up

https://snack.expo.dev/@kris_lau/hazardous-stroopwafel

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 15 (8 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I don’t think this is fixed, we’re getting lots of these on 13.0.1

elliotdickison on Jun 9, 2023

@tsapeta thanks for re-opening, it’s still happening, I’ve got it happening locally too:

Hi Henry, it happened to you locally? I got a LOT of them in production in my Bugsnag Dashboard, but never saw it. Is it actually crashing the app or is it just a log? I am trying to resolve the issue for days now, but nothing worked so far. Upgraded RN, tried different versions of expo-av…

ddmc87 on Jan 4, 2024

The fix for this issue is now available in version 12.0.3 🙂

tsapeta on Aug 4, 2022

Thank you!

OK, I got it, reproduced, know what’s wrong and will fix it today.

I made a very basic mistake 🙈 - the unloadAsync() is asynchronous and try-catch isn’t working, because componentWillUnmount isn’t async function. Replacing try { unloadAsync() } catch { } with Promise-like unloadAsync().catch(() => {}) solves this issue.

barthap on Aug 3, 2022