Using react-native-screens and SwiftUI Preview at the same project breaks Preview

Description

When we add a SwiftUI Preview to our project in order to get a preview of a native component, we get an infinite loop of reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden call and preview crashes.

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Subtype: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000016b1dffd0
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x000000016b1dffd0
VM Region Info: 0x16b1dffd0 is in 0x1679dc000-0x16b1e0000;  bytes after start: 58736592  bytes before end: 47
      REGION TYPE                    START - END         [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD  REGION DETAIL
      MALLOC_MEDIUM (reserved)    15f800000-160000000    [ 8192K] rw-/rwx SM=NUL  ...(unallocated)
      GAP OF 0x79dc000 BYTES
--->  STACK GUARD                 1679dc000-16b1e0000    [ 56.0M] ---/rwx SM=NUL  ... for thread 0
      Stack                       16b1e0000-16b9dc000    [ 8176K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV  thread 0
Termination Reason: SIGNAL 11 Segmentation fault: 11
Terminating Process: exc handler [18989]

Triggered by Thread:  0

Kernel Triage:
VM - pmap_enter retried due to resource shortage
VM - pmap_enter retried due to resource shortage
VM - pmap_enter retried due to resource shortage
VM - pmap_enter retried due to resource shortage
VM - pmap_enter retried due to resource shortage


Thread 0 Crashed::  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   UIKitCore                     	       0x1116dc008 -[UIViewController(UIContainerViewControllerProtectedMethods) childViewControllers] + 0
1   PermissionView.1.preview-thunk.dylib	       0x126726068 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) findChildRNScreensViewController] + 32
2   FirstWords                    	       0x104b105ec -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 32
3   FirstWords                    	       0x104b10630 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 100
4   FirstWords                    	       0x104b10630 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 100
5   FirstWords                    	       0x104b10630 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 100
6   FirstWords                    	       0x104b10630 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 100
7   FirstWords                    	       0x104b10630 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 100
8   FirstWords                    	       0x104b10630 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 100
9   FirstWords                    	       0x104b10630 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 100
10  FirstWords                    	       0x104b10630 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 100
11  FirstWords                    	       0x104b10630 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 100
12  FirstWords                    	       0x104b10630 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 100
13  FirstWords                    	       0x104b10630 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 100
14  FirstWords                    	       0x104b10630 -[UIViewController(RNScreens) reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden] + 100

Steps to reproduce

• Create a SwiftUI preview for a native view following https://www.swiftjectivec.com/using-xcode-previews-for-uikit/ this tutorial.
• Preview crashes

Screens version

3.17

React Native version

0.68.3

Platforms

iOS

Build type

Debug mode

Device

iOS simulator. Xcode Preview

Acknowledgements

Yes

Start by reproducing the crash with the SwiftUI UIKit preview steps and inspect the native UIViewController(RNScreens) entry points named in the stack trace: reactNativeScreensChildViewControllerForStatusBarHidden and findChildRNScreensViewController. Done means the Xcode Preview no longer recurses through these calls or crashes while normal react-native-screens behavior remains intact.