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Problem

Crashlytics on v0.6.1 (75):

RuntimeException: Unable to pause activity {MainActivity}:
WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window -- token is not valid; is your activity running?
  at DialogFragment.onStart
  at ProfilePickerSheet.onStart

DialogFragment.show() commits asynchronously. When the activity starts finishing before the main looper gets to the commit, FragmentActivity.onPause executes the pending transaction itself, brings the new fragment to STARTED, and Dialog.show() runs on a window token that is already gone. A tap on the profile chip and a back gesture in the same moment is enough.

The click listener itself is not safe either: View.onTouchEvent posts it with post(mPerformClick), so it is a regular message that can land behind an already queued pause and run on a paused, finishing activity.

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  • New DialogFragments.showNow(host, fm, dialog, tag): shows the dialog with showNow() only while the host's lifecycle is at least RESUMED, and skips it otherwise. The synchronous commit leaves nothing pending for the pause to flush; the resumed check covers the click landing behind the pause. RESUMED also rules out finishing, destroyed and state-saved hosts.
  • The six sheets opened from click listeners and the two QrCodeDialog sites (engine URLOpener, SSO login and session extend) go through it. The QR helper assigns qrCodeDialog only when the dialog was actually shown. The browser intent is started as before.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Authentication and selection dialogs display more reliably when the app is active, avoiding issues during lifecycle transitions.
    • Theme, profile, exit-node, language, split-tunneling, and troubleshooting pickers now follow consistent display behavior.
    • If neither the device-code QR dialog nor the external browser opens during a session-extension attempt, the attempt is canceled.

DialogFragment.show() commits the transaction asynchronously. If the
activity starts finishing before the main looper gets to it, the pending
transaction is executed by FragmentActivity.onPause itself
(dispatchPause -> execPendingActions), which brings the fresh fragment to
STARTED and calls Dialog.show() on a window token that is already gone:

  RuntimeException: Unable to pause activity {MainActivity}:
  WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window -- token is not
  valid; is your activity running?
    at DialogFragment.onStart
    at ProfilePickerSheet.onStart

A tap on the profile chip followed by a back gesture in the same frame is
enough, since input events are dispatched ahead of an already queued pause
message.

The six sheets opened from click listeners now use showNow(). The click
runs while the activity is resumed and focused, so the synchronous commit
adds the window with a valid token, and nothing is left pending for the
pause to pick up. Click listeners never run inside a fragment transaction,
so the reentrancy restriction of commitNow does not apply.

The two QrCodeDialog sites run from the engine's URLOpener and can fire at
any time, including after onSaveInstanceState, where both show() and
showNow() throw. They now go through a helper that skips the dialog when
the activity is finishing, destroyed or past state save, and shows it
synchronously otherwise. The browser intent is still started as before.
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DialogFragments.showNow checks the host lifecycle and activity state before displaying a dialog. Device-code flows and picker sheets use this helper. The extension flow cancels when neither the QR dialog nor the browser opens.

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Dialog presentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lifecycle-checked dialog display
app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/DialogFragments.java
showNow returns false when the host is below RESUMED or its activity is finishing. Otherwise, it displays the dialog synchronously and returns true.
Device-code dialog and browser handling
app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/MainActivity.java
The device-code flow stores the QR dialog only when display succeeds. The extension flow tracks whether the browser opened and cancels the session if neither the dialog nor browser opens.
Picker sheet display
app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/advanced/AdvancedFragment.java, app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/home/HomeFragment.java, app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/settings/SettingsFragment.java, app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/splittunneling/SplitTunnelingFragment.java, app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/troubleshoot/TroubleshootFragment.java
These fragments display their theme, profile, exit-node, language, split-tunneling mode, and anonymization-level sheets through DialogFragments.showNow.

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Change: Bug fix

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Dialogs are now shown only when the host is resumed and its activity is not finishing, which avoids the crash during pause. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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showNow() relies on the click running while the activity is still resumed, but that isn't guaranteed; View.onTouchEvent doesn't invoke the listener inline. It enqueues it with post(mPerformClick) as a regular message. If the touch is processed ahead of an already queued pause, which is the ordering the description relies on, the posted click lands behind that pause. The listener then runs on a paused, finishing activity, and showNow() throws the same BadTokenException, now from the click handler instead of onPause. If it lands after onSaveInstanceState, it throws IllegalStateException instead.

Could these six sites go through the same guard as the QR helper (isStateSaved(), isFinishing(), or a lifecycle check for at least RESUMED)? Ideally that would be one shared helper rather than six inline copies.

pappz added 2 commits October 7, 2026 14:06
showNow() alone covers one ordering: the click runs first and the pause
flushes the pending show(). It does not cover the other one. View.onTouchEvent
does not invoke the click listener inline; it posts it with
post(mPerformClick), so the listener is a regular message that can land
behind an already queued pause. It then runs on a paused, finishing activity
and showNow() throws the same BadTokenException from the click handler, or
an IllegalStateException if it lands after onSaveInstanceState.

All eight dialog sites now go through one helper that checks the host's
lifecycle is at least RESUMED before showNow(), and skips the dialog
otherwise. RESUMED also rules out finishing after pause, destroyed and
state-saved hosts, so the QrCodeDialog helper drops its separate checks and
only keeps the field assignment for a dialog that was actually shown.
On TV the QR dialog is the only login surface. When the extend URL arrives
while the activity cannot show a dialog, nothing is on screen and nobody
dismisses it, so cancelExtendSession() never runs: the Go flow keeps its
loopback port until it times out and every later extend fails with
"already in progress".

showQrCodeDialog() now reports whether the dialog was shown. The extend
opener cancels the flow when neither the dialog nor the browser opened,
which is what dismissing the dialog would have done.
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showNow() relies on the click running while the activity is still resumed, but that isn't guaranteed; View.onTouchEvent doesn't invoke the listener inline. It enqueues it with post(mPerformClick) as a regular message. If the touch is processed ahead of an already queued pause, which is the ordering the description relies on, the posted click lands behind that pause. The listener then runs on a paused, finishing activity, and showNow() throws the same BadTokenException, now from the click handler instead of onPause. If it lands after onSaveInstanceState, it throws IllegalStateException instead.

Could these six sites go through the same guard as the QR helper (isStateSaved(), isFinishing(), or a lifecycle check for at least RESUMED)? Ideally that would be one shared helper rather than six inline copies.

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pappz added 2 commits October 12, 2026 10:17
# Conflicts:
#	app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/advanced/AdvancedFragment.java
#	app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/settings/SettingsFragment.java
#	app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/splittunneling/SplitTunnelingFragment.java
#	app/src/main/java/io/netbird/client/ui/troubleshoot/TroubleshootFragment.java

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Thanks, the shared helper with the RESUMED + isFinishing() gate covers the posted-click case. LGTM.

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