fix(android): keep MapView alive when it leaves the window

[jkasprzyk17]

Problem

Detaching the map from the window destroyed the underlying Google MapView and latched isDestroyed permanently, so it could never be resumed again:

override fun onViewDetachedFromWindow(v: View) {
  context.removeLifecycleEventListener(this@GoogleMapProviderAdapter)
  mapView.onPause()
  destroyMapViewIfNeeded(mapView)   // -> onDestroy(); isDestroyed = true, forever
}

Leaving the window is not the same as being thrown away. Any parent reparenting, removeClippedSubviews, or a navigator detaching an inactive screen (React Navigation does this by default) left a blank, dead map for the rest of the session. Unmount/remount was fine — a fresh adapter was built — so this only bit the detach-without-unmount paths.

Two further problems fell out of the same code:

• The lifecycle listener was unregistered on that first detach, so onHostResume/onHostPause stopped working even if the view came back.
• onStart, onStop and onLowMemory were never forwarded to the SDK at all — only onCreate(null), onResume, onPause and onDestroy.

Fix

The one-way latch becomes an ordered state machine (MapViewLifecycleOwner) that walks one step at a time, since the Maps SDK only tolerates ordered transitions. Every state below DESTROYED is reversible.

The target state is now derived from two independent signals instead of being a side effect of a view event:

!isAttachedToWindow -> CREATED     // off screen: pause + stop
isHostResumed       -> RESUMED
else                -> STARTED     // attached, app backgrounded

onDestroy() moves to prepareForRecycle() and onHostDestroy() — the two points where the adapter is genuinely discarded. That part matters: detach used to be the only disposal path, so removing onDestroy() from it without adding it there would have traded a dead map for leaked MapViews.

onSaveInstanceState is intentionally not forwarded. A Fabric view has no host to hand it a Bundle and no restore path, so it would be dead code.

Verification

Compile-checked (:react-native-better-maps:compileDebugKotlin, no warnings), then A/B tested on an emulator: the map inside a ScrollView with removeClippedSubviews, scrolled out of view and back, with the SDK lifecycle calls logged.

	before	after
start	onCreate → onResume	onCreate → onStart → onResume
detach	onPause → onDestroy	onPause → onStop
re-attach	nothing	onStart → onResume
result	blank rectangle, Google logo only	map fully alive

Before the fix, re-attach logged nothing at all — the latch blocked the resume, exactly as diagnosed.

Only the removeClippedSubviews path was exercised on device; screens and reparenting go through the same onViewDetachedFromWindow, but were not run separately. onLowMemory was not exercised under real memory pressure.

Notes

Android only — iOS never had this, and it needs no equivalent change. No public API change: no new props, no type changes, nothing for consumers to migrate.

No regression test: the Android module has no test infrastructure (no src/test, no JUnit dependency), and MapViewLifecycleOwner depends on MapView, so covering it means pulling in Robolectric or mockito. Worth deciding separately.

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React Doctor found 8 issues in 5 files · 2 errors & 6 warnings · score 64 / 100 (Needs work) · full project

Errors

• ❌ App.tsx:727 State updater has side effects no-impure-state-updater
• ❌ src/hooks/useCollectedOverlays.ts:239 Ref mutated during render no-ref-current-in-render

6 warnings

App.tsx

• ⚠️ L729 Side effect inside a state updater function no-side-effect-in-state-updater-function
• ⚠️ L734 Side effect inside a state updater function no-side-effect-in-state-updater-function
• ⚠️ L735 Side effect inside a state updater function no-side-effect-in-state-updater-function

package.json

• ⚠️ L0 unused-dev-dependency

src/hooks/index.ts

• ⚠️ L0 unused-file

src/utils/enteringAnimation.ts

• ⚠️ L33 unused-export

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved Google Maps view lifecycle handling during attachment, detachment, pausing, resuming, and recycling.
  • Prevented premature map destruction when views are temporarily detached.
  • Improved handling of configuration changes and low-memory conditions.
  • Ensured map resources are released during host destruction or recycling.
  • Improved camera and visible-region query reliability.
  • Prevented camera actions when no map is mounted.
  • Preserved the active map if a replacement map cannot be created.

Walkthrough

The PR adds centralized MapView lifecycle management, preserves maps during detachment, routes queries through the main thread, and centralizes one-way adapter release and teardown.

Changes

MapView lifecycle management

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Lifecycle state machine package/android/src/main/java/com/margelo/nitro/nitromaps/MapViewLifecycleState.kt, package/android/src/main/java/com/margelo/nitro/nitromaps/MapViewLifecycleOwner.kt	Defines ordered lifecycle states. The owner applies reversible transitions, forwards low-memory events, and performs terminal destruction.
Adapter lifecycle integration package/android/src/main/java/com/margelo/nitro/nitromaps/GoogleMapProviderAdapter.kt	Tracks host resume state and window attachment. The adapter synchronizes the owner and registers callbacks without destroying the map during ordinary detachment.
Map operations and disposal contract package/android/src/main/java/com/margelo/nitro/nitromaps/GoogleMapProviderAdapter.kt, package/android/src/main/java/com/margelo/nitro/nitromaps/MapProviderAdapter.kt, package/android/src/main/java/com/margelo/nitro/nitromaps/HybridMapView.kt	Routes camera and visible-region queries through promiseOnMain. Renames prepareForRecycle() to release(). Centralizes teardown and rejects imperative camera calls when no adapter is mounted.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 18e71

This Android change keeps maps reversible across window detachment and restores the expected lifecycle forwarding without changing the public API; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Host
  participant HybridMapView
  participant GoogleMapProviderAdapter
  participant MapViewLifecycleOwner
  participant MapView
  Host->>GoogleMapProviderAdapter: Send resume, pause, or destroy event
  GoogleMapProviderAdapter->>MapViewLifecycleOwner: Select target lifecycle state
  MapViewLifecycleOwner->>MapView: Invoke ordered lifecycle callbacks
  HybridMapView->>GoogleMapProviderAdapter: Release adapter
  GoogleMapProviderAdapter->>MapViewLifecycleOwner: Move to DESTROYED
  MapViewLifecycleOwner->>MapView: Invoke onDestroy

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the required fix prefix and accurately describes the Android MapView lifecycle change, although it exceeds the ideal 50-character length.
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Inline comments:
In
`@package/android/src/main/java/com/margelo/nitro/nitromaps/GoogleMapProviderAdapter.kt`:
- Around line 418-425: Update syncLifecycleState and the host lifecycle handling
to propagate ON_STOP and ON_START to MapView when the attached host stops and
restarts, preserving the existing CREATED, STARTED, and RESUMED transitions. Add
instrumentation coverage for backgrounding and restoring the host Activity,
verifying MapView receives onStop followed by onStart before resume.

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