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Description

Closes #4505.

RNScreensFragmentFactory currently identifies screen fragments by checking whether the restored class name starts with the library package. R8 can repackage those classes when optimized resource shrinking is enabled, so the check falls through to normal fragment restoration and the screen fragment constructor throws.

This change makes restoration independent of class and package names.

Changes

  • Added an internal RNScreensFragment marker for fragments owned by the library.
  • Marked the legacy screen/modal fragments and the Stack v5 / Tabs fragments.
  • Updated RNScreensFragmentFactory to load the fragment class and check the marker with isAssignableFrom before substituting AutoRemovingFragment.

Test plan

Used the maintainer-confirmed reproducer from https://github.com/t0maboro/RNS4505 with React Native 0.86.2, android.r8.optimizedResourceShrinking=true, minification, and resource shrinking enabled.

Control (react-native-screens 4.25.0):

  1. Built and installed the release APK on an Android 36 emulator.
  2. Confirmed R8 moved ScreenFragment and ScreenStackFragment to v3.D and v3.N.
  3. Pushed Home -> Second -> Third, backgrounded the app, killed its process, and relaunched it.
  4. Relaunch crashed with Unable to instantiate fragment v3.N and Screen fragments should never be restored.

Patched build from this branch:

  1. Packed the branch as an npm tarball and rebuilt the same release reproducer.
  2. Confirmed R8 still repackaged all tested fragment classes outside com.swmansion.rnscreens.
  3. Repeated the same navigation, background, process-kill, and cold-start sequence.
  4. The app relaunched normally and the crash log remained empty.

Additional checks:

  • yarn lint-android
  • yarn check-types
  • FabricExample/android/gradlew :app:assembleDebug --console=plain -PreactNativeArchitectures=arm64-v8a
  • Reproducer android/gradlew :app:assembleRelease --console=plain -PreactNativeArchitectures=arm64-v8a

Checklist

  • Included a code example that can be used to test this change (linked reproducer).
  • No visual changes.
  • No public API changes.
  • Local CI-equivalent lint, type-check, debug build, and R8 release build pass.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved Android screen restoration reliability, including builds where class names may be optimized or changed.
    • Ensured supported screen, modal, stack, and tab fragments are correctly recognized during restoration.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Android fragment restoration factory now identifies react-native-screens fragments through an internal marker interface. Screen, modal, stack, and tab fragments implement the interface, while other fragments continue through the superclass factory.

Changes

Fragment restoration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Marker interface
android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/fragment/restoration/RNScreensFragment.kt
Adds the internal RNScreensFragment marker interface.
Factory routing and fragment adoption
android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/fragment/restoration/RNScreensFragmentFactory.kt, android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/legacy/ScreenFragment.kt, android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/legacy/ScreenModalFragment.kt, android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/stack/screen/StackScreenFragment.kt, android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/tabs/screen/TabsScreenFragment.kt
RNScreensFragmentFactory routes marked classes to AutoRemovingFragment and delegates other classes to the superclass factory. Screen fragment classes implement the marker interface.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔴 Critical · up to 1ce5f

The Android module currently cannot compile because public fragment classes expose an internal marker interface, making this release-blocking until the marker is made publicly visible or the class visibility is changed.

Suggested reviewers: kmichalikk

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FragmentManager
  participant RNScreensFragmentFactory
  participant LoadedFragmentClass
  participant AutoRemovingFragment
  participant FragmentFactory
  FragmentManager->>RNScreensFragmentFactory: instantiate(className)
  RNScreensFragmentFactory->>LoadedFragmentClass: load class
  alt Loaded class implements RNScreensFragment
    RNScreensFragmentFactory->>AutoRemovingFragment: create replacement
    AutoRemovingFragment-->>FragmentManager: return fragment
  else Other fragment class
    RNScreensFragmentFactory->>FragmentFactory: delegate instantiate
    FragmentFactory-->>FragmentManager: return fragment
  end
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #4505 by replacing package-name detection with marker-interface assignability for all owned fragments.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed All changes support the linked issue by making owned Android fragments identifiable after R8 repackaging.

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In
`@android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/fragment/restoration/RNScreensFragment.kt`:
- Line 7: Make the RNScreensFragment interface public so it can be implemented
by the public ScreenFragment, ScreenModalFragment, and TabsScreenFragment
classes and allow the Android module to compile.
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  • android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/fragment/restoration/RNScreensFragment.kt
  • android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/fragment/restoration/RNScreensFragmentFactory.kt
  • android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/legacy/ScreenFragment.kt
  • android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/legacy/ScreenModalFragment.kt
  • android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/stack/screen/StackScreenFragment.kt
  • android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/tabs/screen/TabsScreenFragment.kt

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* Marks fragments owned by react-native-screens so that [RNScreensFragmentFactory] can identify
* them without relying on class names, which may be changed by R8.
*/
internal interface RNScreensFragment

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

🧩 Analysis chain

🏁 Script executed:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

marker="android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/fragment/restoration/RNScreensFragment.kt"

rg -n '^\s*internal interface RNScreensFragment\b' "$marker"

for file in \
  "android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/legacy/ScreenFragment.kt" \
  "android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/legacy/ScreenModalFragment.kt" \
  "android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/tabs/screen/TabsScreenFragment.kt"; do
  rg -n '^\s*(open )?class |RNScreensFragment' "$file"
done

Repository: software-mansion/react-native-screens

Length of output: 604


🏁 Script executed:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- marker ---'
cat -n android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/fragment/restoration/RNScreensFragment.kt

for file in \
  android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/legacy/ScreenFragment.kt \
  android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/legacy/ScreenModalFragment.kt \
  android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/tabs/screen/TabsScreenFragment.kt; do
  printf '\n--- %s ---\n' "$file"
  sed -n '1,50p' "$file"
done

printf '\n--- Kotlin visibility/compiler configuration ---\n'
rg -n -i 'kotlin|explicitApi|allWarningsAsErrors|languageVersion|apiVersion|jvmTarget' \
  --glob '!*build*' \
  --glob '!node_modules/**' \
  --glob '!**/gradle-wrapper.properties' \
  . | head -200

Repository: software-mansion/react-native-screens

Length of output: 10569


🏁 Script executed:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path

files = [
    Path("android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/fragment/restoration/RNScreensFragment.kt"),
    Path("android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/legacy/ScreenFragment.kt"),
    Path("android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/legacy/ScreenModalFragment.kt"),
    Path("android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/tabs/screen/TabsScreenFragment.kt"),
]

for path in files:
    text = path.read_text()
    print(f"\n--- {path} ---")
    for i, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), 1):
        if "RNScreensFragment" in line or "class Screen" in line or "class TabsScreen" in line:
            start = max(1, i - 3)
            end = min(len(text.splitlines()), i + 5)
            lines = text.splitlines()
            for j in range(start, end + 1):
                print(f"{j}: {lines[j-1]}")
            print()
PY

printf '%s\n' '--- implementer usages and public API exposure ---'
rg -n 'RNScreensFragment|ScreenFragment|ScreenModalFragment|TabsScreenFragment' \
  android/src/main android/src/test android/src/androidTest 2>/dev/null | head -250

Repository: software-mansion/react-native-screens

Length of output: 20045


🏁 Script executed:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re

root = Path("android/src/main/java")
marker = root / "com/swmansion/rnscreens/fragment/restoration/RNScreensFragment.kt"
marker_text = marker.read_text()
marker_match = re.search(r"(?m)^\s*(?P<visibility>internal\s+)?interface\s+RNScreensFragment\b", marker_text)
assert marker_match, "RNScreensFragment declaration not found"
print(f"RNScreensFragment visibility: {marker_match.group('visibility') or 'public (Kotlin default)'}")

implementers = []
for path in root.rglob("*.kt"):
    text = path.read_text()
    if path == marker:
        continue
    if "RNScreensFragment" not in text:
        continue
    for match in re.finditer(
        r"(?m)^\s*(?P<visibility>internal\s+|private\s+|protected\s+)?"
        r"(?P<kind>open\s+class|class|object)\s+(?P<name>[A-Za-z_]\w*)"
        r"(?P<header>[\s\S]{0,300}?)\{",
        text,
    ):
        header = match.group("header")
        if "RNScreensFragment" in header:
            implementers.append((
                str(path),
                match.group("name"),
                match.group("visibility") or "public (Kotlin default)",
            ))

for path, name, visibility in implementers:
    print(f"{path}: {visibility}{name} implements RNScreensFragment")

public = [(path, name) for path, name, visibility in implementers
          if visibility == "public (Kotlin default)"]
assert marker_match.group("visibility") == "internal "
assert public, "No public implementers found"
print(f"Public implementers found: {len(public)}")
PY

printf '%s\n' '--- compiler availability (no repository code is executed) ---'
if command -v kotlinc >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  kotlinc -version 2>&1 | head -2
else
  echo 'kotlinc unavailable'
fi

Repository: software-mansion/react-native-screens

Length of output: 908


Make RNScreensFragment public.

ScreenFragment, ScreenModalFragment, and TabsScreenFragment are public classes that implement the internal interface. Kotlin rejects this exposed superinterface, so the Android module cannot compile.

Proposed fix
-internal interface RNScreensFragment
+interface RNScreensFragment
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internal interface RNScreensFragment
interface RNScreensFragment
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In
`@android/src/main/java/com/swmansion/rnscreens/fragment/restoration/RNScreensFragment.kt`
at line 7, Make the RNScreensFragment interface public so it can be implemented
by the public ScreenFragment, ScreenModalFragment, and TabsScreenFragment
classes and allow the Android module to compile.

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