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We have this base fragment for settings:

/**
 * PreferenceScreen ViewGroup is transparent by default
 * Use this to have a full white background
 */
abstract class BasePreferenceFragment : PreferenceFragmentCompat() {

  override fun onCreateView(
    inflater: LayoutInflater,
    container: ViewGroup?,
    savedInstanceState: Bundle?
  ): View? {
    val v = super.onCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState)!!
    v.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE)
    return v
  }

}

And this is our simple xml settings layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PreferenceScreen xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

    <PreferenceCategory
        app:key="auth_options"
        app:title="@string/auth_settings_title">

        <Preference
            app:key="@string/pref_change_pin_key"
            app:title="@string/edit_pin"
            app:isPreferenceVisible="true" />

        <SwitchPreference
            app:key="@string/pref_biometric_auth_key"
            app:title="@string/use_biomertic_auth"
            app:summary="@string/use_biometric_auth_msg"
            app:defaultValue="false"
            app:isPreferenceVisible="true" />

    </PreferenceCategory>

</PreferenceScreen>

On Crashlytics we have numerous crashes with this stacktrace:

Caused by android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Unable to find resource ID #0x7f0402ac
  at android.content.res.ResourcesImpl.getResourceTypeName(ResourcesImpl.java:418)
  at android.content.res.Resources.getResourceTypeName(Resources.java:2213)
  at android.content.res.Resources$Theme.getExplicitStyle(Resources.java:1871)
  at android.view.View.retrieveExplicitStyle(View.java:6184)
  at android.view.View.<init>(View.java:5329)
  at android.view.ViewGroup.<init>(ViewGroup.java:707)
  at android.view.ViewGroup.<init>(ViewGroup.java:703)
  at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.<init>(RecyclerView.java:654)
  at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.<init>(RecyclerView.java:650)
  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance0(Constructor.java)
  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:343)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:864)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:1016)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:971)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:669)
  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:536)
  at androidx.preference.PreferenceFragmentCompat.onCreateRecyclerView(PreferenceFragmentCompat.java:541)
  at androidx.preference.PreferenceFragmentCompat.onCreateView(PreferenceFragmentCompat.java:208)
  at our.app.package.BasePreferenceFragment.onCreateView(BasePreferenceFragment.java:21)
  at androidx.fragment.app.Fragment.performCreateView(Fragment.java:2699)
  at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentStateManager.createView(FragmentStateManager.java:320)
  at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1199)
  at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1368)
  at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.moveFragmentToExpectedState(FragmentManager.java:1446)
  at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.moveToState(FragmentManager.java:1509)
  at androidx.fragment.app.BackStackRecord.executeOps(BackStackRecord.java:447)
  at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.executeOps(FragmentManager.java:2181)
  at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.executeOpsTogether(FragmentManager.java:2004)
  at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.removeRedundantOperationsAndExecute(FragmentManager.java:1959)
  at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.execPendingActions(FragmentManager.java:1861)
  at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager$4.run(FragmentManager.java:413)
  at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:900)
  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:219)
  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8387)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
  at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:513)
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1055)

Checking the PreferenceFragmentCompat internal, it always crashes at this line:

RecyclerView recyclerView = (RecyclerView) inflater
     .inflate(R.layout.preference_recyclerview, parent, false);

Component used: androidx.preference:preference-ktx:1.1.1
Devices/Android versions reproduced on:
HUAWEI P30 - Android 10
Mate 10 Pro - Android 10
Honor 8X - Android 10

Is there something we can do to fix this? It appears to be random and we don't own one of the affected devices to test locally.

A related SO link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60127269/binary-xml-file-line-18-error-inflating-class-androidx-recyclerview-widget-rec

Thank you.