Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value

[singhagam1]

Description

I am using a rive animation file that goes in loop. when i try to stop it after 15* iterations, I get the bellow error -

=> rive_react_native/RiveReactNativeViewManager.swift:30: Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value

Expected behavior

I expect the app to not crash.

Screenshots

Additional context

I don't think we need a minimal reproducible example for this.

[mfazekas]

@singhagam1 thanks very much for the bug report.

I wasn't able to reproduce the issue, tried with this component (new arch enabled):

import { useRef } from "react";
import { Button, View } from "react-native";
import Rive, { AutoBind, Fit, RiveRef } from "rive-react-native";

export default function InitialComponent() {
  const riveRef = useRef<RiveRef>(null);

  return (
    <View style={{ flex: 1, padding: 10 }}>
      <Rive
        url="https://public.rive.app/community/runtime-files/2195-4346-avatar-pack-use-case.riv"
        autoplay
        fit={Fit.Cover}
        style={{ flex: 1 }}
        ref={riveRef}
        dataBinding={AutoBind(true)}
      />
      <Button title="Stop" onPress={() => riveRef.current?.stop()} />
    </View>
  );
}

npm ls --depth=0  expo rive-react-native react-native
├── expo@54.0.20
├── react-native@0.81.5
└── rive-react-native@9.6.2