Crash when loading image into AppCompatImageView

I attempted to migrate from Glide to Coil in my app. After switching to Coil, the app crashed in runtime as soon as an image was downloaded when it was being set to a androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatImageView descendant. May be worth to note, that I’m using this ui library: https://github.com/stfalcon-studio/ChatKit Could you help me understand what the issue is and if there are any possible workarounds?

Here’s the stacktrace: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Software rendering doesn't support hardware bitmaps at android.graphics.BaseCanvas.onHwBitmapInSwMode(BaseCanvas.java:550) at android.graphics.BaseCanvas.throwIfHwBitmapInSwMode(BaseCanvas.java:557) at android.graphics.BaseCanvas.throwIfCannotDraw(BaseCanvas.java:69) at android.graphics.BaseCanvas.drawBitmap(BaseCanvas.java:127) at android.graphics.Canvas.drawBitmap(Canvas.java:1504) at android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable.draw(BitmapDrawable.java:545) at android.widget.ImageView.onDraw(ImageView.java:1360) at com.stfalcon.chatkit.utils.ShapeImageView.onDraw(ShapeImageView.java:70) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20207) at android.view.View.buildDrawingCacheImpl(View.java:19478) at android.view.View.buildDrawingCache(View.java:19338) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:19927) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4333) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4112) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19073) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:19935) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4333) at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.drawChild(RecyclerView.java:5011) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4112) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20210) at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.draw(RecyclerView.java:4410) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19082) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:19935) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4333) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4112) at androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout.dispatchDraw(ConstraintLayout.java:2023) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20210) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19082) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:19935) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4333) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4112) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20210) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19082) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:19935) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4333) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4112) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19073) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:19935) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4333) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4112) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19073) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:19935) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4333) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4112) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19073) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:19935) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4333) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4112) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19073) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:19935) at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:4333) at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:4112) at android.view.View.draw(View.java:20210) at com.android.internal.policy.DecorView.draw(DecorView.java:780) at android.view.View.updateDisplayListIfDirty(View.java:19082) at android.view.ThreadedRenderer.updateViewTreeDisplayList(ThreadedRenderer.java:686) at android.view.ThreadedRenderer.updateRootDisplayList(ThreadedRenderer.java:692) at android.view.ThreadedRenderer.draw(ThreadedRenderer.java:801) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.draw(ViewRootImpl.java:3311) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performDraw(ViewRootImpl.java:3115) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:2484) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1460) at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:7183) at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:949) at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:761) at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:696) at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:935) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:873) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:193) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6669) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:493) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:858)

[colinrtwhite]

Do you have View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE set on your ImageView or do you know if the library enables software rendering behind the scenes? Either way you should be able to fix this by using:

imageView.load(url) {
    allowHardware(false)
}

This prevents using hardware Bitmaps for that request.

[janbarari]

I fixed this issue by adding allowHardware(false) in my coil configuration