Unexpected crash after reopening the app

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Affected version

0.29.0

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Close the app with a video slowly loading in.
2. Reopen the app.

Expected behavior

No crash

Actual behavior

Crash

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Logs

Exception

• User Action: ui error
• Request: ACRA report
• Content Country: NL
• Content Language: en-NL
• App Language: en_NL
• Service: <unknown_service>
• Timestamp: 2026-08-16T11:52:10.943+03:00
• Package: org.schabi.newpipe
• Service: <unknown_service>
• Version: 0.29.0
• OS: Linux Android 17 - 37

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to read from field 'java.util.ArrayList org.schabi.newpipe.info_list.InfoListAdapter.infoItemList' on a null object reference in method 'void org.schabi.newpipe.MainActivity$4.onStateChanged(int)'
	at org.schabi.newpipe.MainActivity$4.onStateChanged(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:52)
	at com.google.android.material.bottomsheet.BottomSheetBehavior.setStateInternal(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:68)
	at androidx.lifecycle.LiveData$1.run(r8-map-id-86a71dde26502018768275c3ef5c4d56379672d582e9c15e1a63fb997724bbe7:134)
	at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:1657)
	at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:1666)
	at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:1252)
	at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:1205)
	at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:1640)
	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:1095)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessageImpl(Handler.java:135)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:125)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:296)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:397)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:9569)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:575)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:975)

Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 17 / GrapheneOS 2026081300

Affected device model

Pixel 10 Pro

Additional information

Wi-Fi with Orbot (Tor VPN) because YouTube is blocked in my country, so the network is slow. The video was loading, I closed the app to check something and opened it only to see the crash log.