react-native-view-shot: (Android) Trying to resolve view with tag which doesn't exist

I’m getting this issue if my view reference did not specify a backgroundColor.

so the code works fine if I take a Snapshot with the below viewRef

<View   
  style={{backgroundColor: 'yellow'}}   
  ref={ref => viewRefSuccess = ref}>   
  <Text>   
    Hello View Snap Shot   
  </Text>   
</View>

However it will crash with the “Trying to resolve view with tag ‘tagID’ which doesn’t exist” if I remove the backgroundColor props.

<View ref={ref => viewRefSuccess = ref}>   
  <Text>   
    Hello View Snap Shot   
  </Text>   
</View>

Any thought on why this is happening?

Thanks.

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Reactions: 15
Comments: 16 (5 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Probably related to the collapsable property for Android Views. Setting it to false could fix the problem.

+77

gaguirre on Sep 7, 2016

Resolved by adding collapsable={false} to view

<View collapsable={false} style={{backgroundColor: 'yellow'}} ref={ref => viewRefSuccess = ref}> <Text> Hello View Snap Shot </Text> </View>

+69

manivannan-mp on Aug 14, 2019

I’ll add a note in README

gre on Sep 7, 2016

Resolved by adding collapsable={false} to view

<View collapsable={false} style={{backgroundColor: 'yellow'}} ref={ref => viewRefSuccess = ref}> <Text> Hello View Snap Shot </Text> </View>

Thanks @manivannan-mp

hanancs on Nov 4, 2021

yeah, because <Navigator> does not have a UIView representation in the native side, it really needs to be on a View / Image / anything that you are sure that a ‘native ui view’ will exists (and that is not collapsed)

gre on Jan 19, 2017

view is somehow virtual (don’t mirror a real UI View underneath) if you use that property, so it makes sense that resolveView don’t work in that case, it’s not a bug on RN then.

gre on Sep 7, 2016