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There is crash reported in NewRelic saying "Attempt to invoke virtual method 'android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams android.view.View.getLayoutParams()' on a null object reference" at location OrientationHelper.java line 403 in androidx.recyclerview.widget.OrientationHelper$2.getDecoratedStart

Logs are as follows
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams android.view.View.getLayoutParams()' on a null object reference
        at androidx.recyclerview.widget.OrientationHelper$2.getDecoratedStart()(OrientationHelper.java:403)
        at androidx.leanback.widget.Grid.j1()(Grid.java:2)
        at androidx.leanback.widget.Grid$Provider.d()(Grid.java:22)
        at androidx.leanback.widget.StreamingTextView.l()(StreamingTextView.java:81)
        at androidx.leanback.widget.Grid.q1()(Grid.java:26)
        at androidx.leanback.widget.Grid.x1()(Grid.java:120)
        at androidx.leanback.widget.Grid.H0()(Grid.java:32)
        at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView.d0()(RecyclerView.java:36)
        at androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView$SmoothScroller.run()(RecyclerView.java:98)
        at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run()(Choreographer.java:949)
        at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks()(Choreographer.java:761)
        at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame()(Choreographer.java:693)
        at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run()(Choreographer.java:935)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback()(Handler.java:873)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage()(Handler.java:99)
        at android.os.Looper.loop()(Looper.java:193)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main()(ActivityThread.java:6718)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke()(Method.java:-2)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run()(RuntimeInit.java:493)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main()(ZygoteInit.java:858)


Full logs are attached in document.

Currently we are using 'androidx.recyclerview' library v1.2.1(Checked by updating to latest available artifact i.e v1.3.2 also)


We could not find direct steps to reproduce this crash but apparently this crash is happening only in Television and spiking crash graph. Device models are mentioned below.
 -> Chromecaste, Chromecaste HD, BRAVIA 4K GB ATV3, BRAVIA 4K GB, BRAVIA VH1, Smart TV Pro, MiTV-MSSP3 etc.