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Or when changing to textView.textMetricsParamsCompat still crash.

private fun setAsyncText(textView: AppCompatTextView, text: String?) {
        if (!text.isNullOrEmpty()) {
            val textFuture = PrecomputedTextCompat.getTextFuture(text!!, textView.textMetricsParamsCompat, null)
            textView.setTextFuture(textFuture) //Crash
        }
 }

add this line  :
     textView.setLayoutDirection(ViewCompat.getLayoutDirection(textView));
before  :
    setTextFuture(....)

Thanks, #3. It worked.

But I think it is better when set before this line
val textFuture = PrecomputedTextCompat.getTextFuture(text!!, textView.textMetricsParamsCompat, null)

Set android:layoutDirection="locale" or android:layoutDirection="inherit" for AppCompatTextView in the  XML layout didn't this problem.

The new method btw re-set layoutDirector. Weird! This should handle in the AppcompatTextView.

private fun setAsyncText(textView: AppCompatTextView, text: String?) {
        if (!text.isNullOrEmpty()) {
            textView.layoutDirection = textView.layoutDirection
            val textFuture = PrecomputedTextCompat.getTextFuture(text!!, textView.textMetricsParamsCompat, null)
            textView.setTextFuture(textFuture) //Crash
        }
}

Sorry. I forgot the info.

minSdk 21
targetSdk 28

Thanks #3 again.

App Crash at
TextViewCompat.java:889
if (!param.equals(precomputed.getParams())) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Given text can not be applied to TextView.");
}
PrecomputedTextCompat.class:334
with :  this.mTextDir != other.getTextDirection() == true
So,
TextDirection on TextView and TextDirection on Param is difference
maybe, it handled wrong or missing conditional on getTextDirectionHeuristic of TextViewCompat

With reference to comment #4, issue is resolved by implementing suggested changes in comment #3. Can you please confirm if we need to still investigate this issue ?

Yes. textView.layoutDirection = textView.layoutDirection(>= API17) or ViewCompat.setLayoutDirection(textView, ViewCompat.getLayoutDirection(textView)) will resolve this bug.

But I think you should handle it in the AppcompatTextView. It is better. If a developer forgets testing with RTL. I think this is the nightmare(it is difficult to determine the bug) when they update their app on the Play Store.

I read this article, in the part databing he noted about set the direction
https://medium.com/google-developers/prefetch-text-layout-in-recyclerview-4acf9103f438'

fun asyncText
..........
// first, set all measurement affecting properties of the text
// (size, locale, typeface, direction, etc)

But in the offical document isn't good (lack direction)
https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/appcompat/widget/AppCompatTextView.html#setTextFuture(java.util.concurrent.Future%3Candroidx.core.text.PrecomputedTextCompat%3E)

Anything layout related property changes, text size, typeface, letter spacing, etc after this method call will causes IllegalArgumentException during View measurement.


My view: Handling this in the AppcompatTextView is the best choice if you can do it.

Thanks!