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[Color] HarmonizedColors#applyToContextIfAvailable sometimes crashes on Samsung devices running Android 15
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Description
Version: **1.14.0-alpha04**
Exclusively on various Samsung devices running Android 15, I got many automated crash reports triggered by `HarmonizedColors#applyToContextIfAvailable`:
```
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot modify resource loaders of ResourcesImpl not registered with ResourcesManager
at android.app.ResourcesManager$UpdateHandler.onLoadersChanged(ResourcesManager.java:2240)
at android.content.res.Resources.addLoaders(Resources.java:2692)
at com.google.android.material.color.ResourcesLoaderUtils.addResourcesLoaderToContext(ResourcesLoaderUtils.java:37)
at com.google.android.material.color.HarmonizedColors.applyToContextIfAvailable(HarmonizedColors.java:75)
```
It looks like this happen only when an Activity is recreated (for example on orientation change)
The `IllegalArgumentException` is thrown by the framework here:
https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/main:frameworks/base/core/java/android/app/ResourcesManager.java;drc=6d8e2819f0f3930d24b555f9f067d1880854ed19;l=1948
In fact the crash happens whenever `ResourcesLoaderUtils#addResourcesLoaderToContext` is called, thus this crash is also triggered if `ColorResourcesOverride#applyIfPossible` is called. There are probably other calls affected too.
So, I suppose Samsung screw something in its changes to theming or the system ?
On the app side, is there any other work-around than to guard these calls with a `try-catch` block catching `IllegalArgumentException` ?
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