rive-app / rive-app/rive-flutter
Windows app is crashing when loading any .riv file
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Description
Description
The windows app is crashing loading any .riv file.
Steps To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Build your app on windows
- Start any rive animation
- See the app lost connection to device (crash without logs)
Source .riv/.rev file
I will send mine if you can't reproduce the issue, but i have tested with few .riv files and all of them are causing the crash.
Expected behavior
The app should not crash
Device & Versions (please complete the following information)
- Device: Windows
- OS: 10
- Flutter Version: Copy-paste the output of
flutter --version
Flutter 3.41.5 • channel stable • https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
Framework • revision 2c9eb20739 (8 days ago) • 2026-03-17 16:14:01 -0700
Engine • hash c1db59d880ca73dd86cec08a6663f287522d9f39 (revision 052f31d115) (7 days ago) • 2026-03-17 20:29:11.000Z
Tools • Dart 3.11.3 • DevTools 2.54.2
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by building the Windows app with Flutter 3.41.5 and loading several .riv files, then capture the crash location and any available logs. Done means the Windows app loads and starts a Rive animation without crashing or losing its device connection.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- dart, flutter
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100