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Thank you Dinesh,
We have confirmed that we are initializing the renders correctly. This issue does not happen all the time, but is intermittent, as it will just seem to happen all of a sudden.
We are using a newer version of Xamarin forms: 2.3.5.256-pre6. Unfortunately, we are not able to downgrade as they fixed a major bug for us in these pre-releases.
One thing we are doing that might be of note is expanding and collapsing the listview cell on click (to show additional content), Occasionally we notice that the cell expands, but the content doesn't show up, I am wondering if this leads to the crash.
I have attached a text file with our layout. I pasted both the data template and how we use the listview into the same file.
We will work on finding 'reproducible steps' to share with you.
Regards,
-Jeff
Hi Dinesh,
I was able to find a way to reproduce this:
- Open the page that has the listview, the listview ItemsSource is loaded via an API call to our web service.
- Before the API returns it's response, navigate away from the page
- Navigate back to the page
- Observe: When the API response returns, it crashes with the error reported.
As a note, I was able to find a workaround to this 'crash'. On the 'Disappearing' event of the content page. If I dispose of the list view. It will prevent the crash the next time the page loads. The problem with this, is that the next time I load the page, it can take ~5-6 seconds even after our API to response to display the data (even if it is only 1 item).
I hope this helps!
Regards,
-Jeff
I am having same problem when I use listview in a popuppage, if I dont dispose listview when the popup is popped and try to open the popup, it causes crashes using autofit mode.
@Jeff: could you figure out exact problem and found a workaround? I am using latest stable of XF, not pre release and it occurs with that also
Hi Emil,
By what I am seeing, there seems to be some issues around async loading of the ListView ItemsSource from our PageModels. I am not sure if this issue is specific to our MVVM framework (We are using FreshMvvm), but when we navigate away from the page the PageModel, the async commands in progress are not ended automatically (they will finish even if the page is no longer on the stack). So the next time the page loads, it seems as though the ListView is getting confused and tries to load the items from the previous time the PageModel was loaded (which most likely have since been cleaned up) and it crashes with the null reference in MeasureSize.Convert.
As far as a workaround, the 'Dispose' of the ListView on Disappearing seemed to help.. but of course when we would not navigate away from the page completely, but simply a modal popped up, when the modal went away, the app would crash due to the ListView no longer being there. So I got rid of the Dispose() on disappear. What I tried next was in my async Command (which I had attached to a TaskCompletionSource), I tried to cancel the Task on Dissappear. That seemed to help a bit.. but there seemed to be a race condition where occasionally we would see this issue come up still.. My latest attempt at trying to get rid of this race condition, I implemented cancellation token support from our Command to our API Client into the REST client framework (We use RestSharp). I can't say for sure if this helped completely yet as we haven't had any test time with this yet, but I couldn't crash the app in my development environment, but maybe some of the above may help you :).
In either case, I think this crash could easily be prevented by a Null check in this MeasureSize.Convert method (most likely on the view..).
Dinesh,
Sorry for the late reply!
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