Graphics corruption with rive renderer on some Android devices

[evelant]

Description

Some users are reporting corrupted graphics after updating to rive-react-native 8.1.0 and using the rive renderer.

Provide a Repro

Unknown -- Cannot reproduce locally. This issue appears to only happen on some devices and not all the time.

Expected behavior

No graphical artifacts

Screenshots

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Reported from a user on a Galaxy Tab A8

Device & Versions (please complete the following information)

• Device Galaxy Tab A8
• OS: android 14
• rive-react-native: 8.1.0

Additional context

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[leemhenson]

we get occasional reports from users about random shapes appearing. it's not reproducible for us either, but it's definitely not a one-off.

[evelant]

This is still happening @HayesGordon . I just re-enabled the rive renderer to avoid potential problems when using react-native-skia and immediately got reports from users about this. Filed a support ticket at https://rive.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3/RIV-8273

[evelant]

@HayesGordon I got lucky and noticed something potentially very important.

I think this may be related to the Rive renderer running on Mali GPUs. The screenshot above is from a SM-G965F (Samsung Galaxy S9+ European version) which uses the Exynos 9810 cpu and Mali-G72 gpu. I tested the same release of my app on an SM-G965U (Samsung Galaxy S9+ USA version) which uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 cpu and Adreno 630 gpu. The issue does not reproduce on my test phone.

This indicates to me that there is a bug either in the Rive Android sdk or in Mali gpus causing this graphics corruption. Hopefully this is a useful clue and the Rive renderer can work around this.

[evelant]

I found a little bit of information about some opengl graphics corruption problems on mali g71 and g72 here, not sure if it's all that useful: https://community.arm.com/support-forums/f/mobile-graphics-and-gaming-forum/51896/resource-corruption-with-secure-contexts-on-mali-g71-and-g72

[HayesGordon]

@evelant thank you for all the information. We thought this had been resolved in a later version of the Rive Renderer on Android, and that Rive React Native only needed an updated, but it appears not to have been.

We're investigating this issue now.