Crash when opening Newpipe from Android taskbar (?) when video was opened from the share > background player menu

[slasherfun]

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Affected version

0.23.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

Open a video on YouTube app
Select share > Newpipe > Newpipe background player
Wait for the background player to start playing
Open Newpipe from Android "taskbar" (?)
--> Newpipe crashes

Expected behavior

Newpipe not crashing

Actual behavior

Newpipe crashes

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: ui error
• Request: ACRA report
• Content Country: CA
• Content Language: fr-CA
• App Language: fr_CA
• Service: none
• Version: 0.23.0
• OS: Linux Android 10 - 29

Crash log

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'com.google.android.exoplayer2.PlaybackParameters org.schabi.newpipe.player.Player.getPlaybackParameters()' on a null object reference
	at org.schabi.newpipe.player.PlayQueueActivity.onCreateOptionsMenu(PlayQueueActivity.java:100)
	at android.app.Activity.onCreatePanelMenu(Activity.java:4087)
	at androidx.fragment.app.FragmentActivity.onCreatePanelMenu(FragmentActivity.java:287)
	at androidx.appcompat.view.WindowCallbackWrapper.onCreatePanelMenu(WindowCallbackWrapper.java:94)
	at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatDelegateImpl$AppCompatWindowCallback.onCreatePanelMenu(AppCompatDelegateImpl.java:3084)
	at androidx.appcompat.view.WindowCallbackWrapper.onCreatePanelMenu(WindowCallbackWrapper.java:94)
	at androidx.appcompat.app.ToolbarActionBar.populateOptionsMenu(ToolbarActionBar.java:456)
	at androidx.appcompat.app.ToolbarActionBar$1.run(ToolbarActionBar.java:57)
	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:883)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7697)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:516)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:950)

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 10 / OxygenOs 10

Affected device model

OnePlus 5

Additional information

No response

[opusforlife2]

Can you explain "taskbar" in different words?

[slasherfun]

Yes, the drop down menu on the top of the screen, where you have all the notifications from the different apps.

[opusforlife2]

Ah. That's called the notification shade.

[litetex]

Duplicate of #8058

Note: The fix was not released yet

[slasherfun]

Oh OK I thought it was included in the 0.23.0 release, sorry about the duplicate.