Crash when loading image into AppCompatImageView

[overpas]

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.

[overpas]

Thanks, the ImageView has View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE set on it, and indeed allowHardware(false) fixes the thing.
Is there a way to apply allowHardware(false) on each LoadRequest by default globally?

[colinrtwhite]

@overpas Can you describe your use case for disabling hardware Bitmaps globally? Currently, there's no way to do this, as it's bad for performance to globally disable hardware Bitmaps.

[overpas]

In my use case I can disable the flag View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE on views, but maybe if some 3d-party library that requires the View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE flag is used throughout the code, then there should be a possibility to globally apply allowHardware(false) when images are loaded

[colinrtwhite]

Fair enough. You should avoid enabling allowHardware(false) in most cases, but there could be instances where you want to disable it entirely for an ImageLoader. I created #40 to implement this.

[janbarari]

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