Blendle app crash on launch

Seeing a crash immediately on launch of the Blendle app.

Reproduces for me on my phone (lineage 14.1 for microg 0.2.6.13280) with a clean app install. Seems like app was working for me a few lineage/microg versions ago, but I don't have the exact version.

Partial logcat of exception below. Full logcat here: blendle-crash.txt

[10-07 23:58:36.261 29791:29791 E/AndroidRuntime]
FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.blendle.app, PID: 29791
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create application com.blendle.app.BlendleApplication: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke interface method 'com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.zzp com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.zzj.zzx()' on a null object reference
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:5451)
at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap2(ActivityThread.java)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1564)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6186)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:889)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:779)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke interface method 'com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.zzp com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.zzj.zzx()' on a null object reference
at com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.CastContext.(Unknown Source)
at com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.CastContext.getSharedInstance(Unknown Source)
at com.blendle.app.BlendleApplication.onCreate(BlendleApplication.java:111)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callApplicationOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1025)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:5448)
... 8 more

Start by reproducing the clean-install launch failure on the reported LineageOS/microG setup and reading the attached blendle-crash.txt alongside the CastContext stack trace. The report names BlendleApplication.onCreate at line 111 as the caller; done means the Blendle app no longer crashes immediately on launch.