Rive animations not rendering on Android emulator (example app)

[cip123]

I’m experiencing an issue where Rive animations do not display at all on the Android emulator, even when using the official Rive React Native example app.

Everything works correctly on the iOS simulator, so this appears to be Android-specific and possibly emulator-related.

I’ve tested this with multiple Android emulators (Pixel 6, Pixel 7, Samsung S21) using the example app (Rive 9.7.0), but nothing is shown on the screen.

Is this a known limitation of the Android emulator with Rive?
Are there recommended emulator configurations (API level, graphics mode, device type) that reliably run Rive on Android?

[liko127]

It's GPU issue.
You can set the default Renderer for Emulator.

import { RiveRenderer, RiveRendererAndroid, RiveRendererIOS } from 'rive-react-native';
import DeviceInfo from 'react-native-device-info';

const App = () => {
  useEffect(() => {
      DeviceInfo.isEmulator().then(isEmulator => {
        if (isEmulator) {
          RiveRenderer.defaultRenderer(
            RiveRendererIOS.CoreGraphics,
            RiveRendererAndroid.Canvas
          )
        }
      }).catch(() => {
      });
    }, []);
   ......
}

It works for me.