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feat: add RiveRuntime API for Android init failure handling - #153
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Move Rive.init() out of ContentProvider into RivePackage with try/catch. Expose RiveRuntime.initialize() and RiveRuntime.getStatus() to JS so apps can detect and recover from native lib loading failures.
… emulation abiFilter restricts ALL native libs which crashes the entire app. Use packagingOptions to exclude only librive-android.so so RN keeps working and Rive.init() fails gracefully.
- Catch Throwable instead of Exception (UnsatisfiedLinkError is not an Exception) - Throw RuntimeException instead of Error (fbjni only propagates Exception messages) - Include exception class name in error for better debugging
Nitro's JNI bridge wraps Kotlin exceptions in jni::JniException which loses the message in the C++ catch-all handler. Instead, manualInitialize() now just sets the error status without throwing, and the JS wrapper reads initError and throws a descriptive JS Error.
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🤖 I have created a release *beep* *boop* --- ## [0.2.4](v0.2.3...v0.2.4) (2026-02-27) ### Features * add RiveRuntime API for Android init failure handling ([#153](#153)) ([634724e](634724e)) --- This PR was generated with [Release Please](https://github.com/googleapis/release-please). See [documentation](https://github.com/googleapis/release-please#release-please).
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Summary
Moves
Rive.init()out ofContentProvider(which crashes before user code can run) intoRivePackage.createViewManagers()with try/catch. ExposesRiveRuntime.initialize()andRiveRuntime.getStatus()to JS so apps can detect and recover from native lib loading failures (ABI mismatch, missing .so, etc).Refs: rive-android#323, rive-android#341
Closes: #151
API
To skip auto-init, set
Rive_RiveRuntimeAndroidSkipSetup=trueingradle.properties.Test plan
Tested with
Rive_RiveRuntimeAndroidExcludeNativeLibs=truein our example. The code showed this: