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[android] IncompatibleClassChangeError: Couldn't find ReactProp.name crash on createContextInBackground

See original GitHub issue

We are using React Native 0.30.0 and are seeing a (relatively infrequent) hard crash when running createReactContextInBackground().

This crash only happens on Android and, from what we can tell, seems to only be affecting Samsung devices.

It also only seems to be happening to devices running Android 5.0.x.

The crash appears to be reflection related. It says that ReactProp is missing name. I cannot tell which ViewManager it appears to be crashing on, but for a sanity check I have double checked all of our viewmanagers and none of them are missing a name prop.

Full stack trace is here:

java.lang.RuntimeException: An error occured while executing doInBackground()
        at android.os.AsyncTask$3.done(AsyncTask.java:300)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.finishCompletion(FutureTask.java:355)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.setException(FutureTask.java:222)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:242)
        at android.os.AsyncTask$SerialExecutor$1.run(AsyncTask.java:231)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1112)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:587)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)
Caused by: java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Couldn't find com.facebook.react.uimanager.annotations.ReactProp.name
        at libcore.reflect.AnnotationAccess.toAnnotationInstance(AnnotationAccess.java:659)
        at libcore.reflect.AnnotationAccess.toAnnotationInstance(AnnotationAccess.java:641)
        at libcore.reflect.AnnotationAccess.getDeclaredAnnotation(AnnotationAccess.java:170)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.getAnnotation(Method.java:301)
        at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManagersPropertyCache.extractPropSettersFromViewManagerClassDefinition(ViewManagersPropertyCache.java:400)
        at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManagersPropertyCache.getNativePropSettersForViewManagerClass(ViewManagersPropertyCache.java:301)
        at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManagersPropertyCache.getNativePropSettersForViewManagerClass(ViewManagersPropertyCache.java:298)
        at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManagersPropertyCache.getNativePropSettersForViewManagerClass(ViewManagersPropertyCache.java:298)
        at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManagerPropertyUpdater$FallbackViewManagerSetter.<init>(ViewManagerPropertyUpdater.java:115)
        at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManagerPropertyUpdater$FallbackViewManagerSetter.<init>(ViewManagerPropertyUpdater.java:110)
        at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManagerPropertyUpdater.findManagerSetter(ViewManagerPropertyUpdater.java:73)
        at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManagerPropertyUpdater.getNativeProps(ViewManagerPropertyUpdater.java:60)
        at com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManager.getNativeProps(ViewManager.java:199)
        at com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIManagerModuleConstantsHelper.createConstants(UIManagerModuleConstantsHelper.java:62)
        at com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIManagerModule.createConstants(UIManagerModule.java:132)
        at com.facebook.react.uimanager.UIManagerModule.<init>(UIManagerModule.java:84)
        at com.facebook.react.CoreModulesPackage.createNativeModules(CoreModulesPackage.java:66)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerImpl.processPackage(ReactInstanceManagerImpl.java:923)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerImpl.createReactContext(ReactInstanceManagerImpl.java:829)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerImpl.access$700(ReactInstanceManagerImpl.java:99)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerImpl$ReactContextInitAsyncTask.doInBackground(ReactInstanceManagerImpl.java:196)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerImpl$ReactContextInitAsyncTask.doInBackground(ReactInstanceManagerImpl.java:179)
        at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:288)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:237)
        at android.os.AsyncTask$SerialExecutor$1.run(AsyncTask.java:231)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1112)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:587)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

Has anyone else observed this? We haven’t been able to reproduce on a device ourselves.