Android crashes when tried to render TextInput on RN 0.64.x and using appcompat library of 1.4.0

Description

Latest 0.64 react-native is not compatible with latest appcompat androidx library. When app tries to render TextInput, NullPointerException thrown. This happens in file ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactEditText.java (line 972):

private void updateCachedSpannable(boolean resetStyles) { // Noops in non-Fabric if (!mFabricViewStateManager.hasStateWrapper()) { return; }

This happens because super constructor AppCompatEditText calls updateCachedSpannable as part of construction, so mFabricViewStateManager not initialized yet and is null. So need to check mFabricViewStateManager for null value first.

React Native version:

System: OS: macOS 10.15.7 CPU: (8) x64 Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz Memory: 790.90 MB / 24.00 GB Shell: 3.2.57 - /bin/bash Binaries: Node: 15.4.0 - /usr/local/bin/node Yarn: 1.22.10 - /usr/local/bin/yarn npm: 7.0.15 - /usr/local/bin/npm Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman Managers: CocoaPods: 1.10.1 - /Users/st1ng/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.0/bin/pod SDKs: iOS SDK: Platforms: iOS 14.4, DriverKit 20.2, macOS 11.1, tvOS 14.3, watchOS 7.2 Android SDK: API Levels: 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 Build Tools: 25.0.0, 26.0.0, 27.0.3, 28.0.3, 29.0.2, 29.0.3, 30.0.0, 30.0.2 System Images: android-21 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom_64, android-24 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom, android-29 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom, android-30 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom Android NDK: Not Found IDEs: Android Studio: 4.2 AI-202.7660.26.42.7322048 Xcode: 12.4/12D4e - /usr/bin/xcodebuild Languages: Java: 1.8.0_221 - /usr/bin/javac npmPackages: @react-native-community/cli: Not Found react: 17.0.1 => 17.0.1 react-native: 0.64.1 => 0.64.1

Steps To Reproduce

1. Create empty project
2. Set explicitly appcompat version to 1.4.0-alpha01 or make it “+” in app/build.gradle implementation "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.4.0-alpha01"
3. Add empty TextInput to any page

Expected Results

No crash happen

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository:

[cristianoccazinsp]

Use this for now:

implementation ("androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.3.1") {
        version {
            strictly '1.3.1'
        }
    }

[BANG88]

Use this for now:

implementation ("androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.3.1") {
        version {
            strictly '1.3.1'
        }
    }

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