Sendbird SDK crash - SendbirdChat instance hasn't been initialized yet

[Problem/Question]
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We are seeing a crash happening with few of our users. It started happening once the uikit sdk version was updated to 3.25.2.


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[UIKit Version]
// What version of the SDK are you using?

3.25.2

[Reproduction Steps]
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Unclear - I am unable to reproduce this crash. Started happening after I upgraded the uikit version from 3.23.0 to 3.25.2

Here’s the stacktrace though -

Caused by java.lang.RuntimeException

SendbirdChat instance hasn’t been initialized yet. Try SendbirdChat.init().

com.sendbird.android.SendbirdChat.sendbirdChatMain$sendbird_release (SendbirdChat.kt:188)

com.sendbird.android.SendbirdChat.sendbirdChatMain$sendbird_release$default (SendbirdChat.kt:176)

com.sendbird.android.SendbirdChat.getSendbirdChatMain$sendbird_release (SendbirdChat.kt:155)

com.sendbird.android.SendbirdChat.addChannelHandler (SendbirdChat.kt:1328)

com.sendbird.uikit.internal.contracts.SendbirdChatImpl.addChannelHandler (SendbirdChatImpl.kt:19)

com.sendbird.uikit.vm.ChannelViewModel. (ChannelViewModel.java:206)

com.sendbird.uikit.vm.ChannelViewModel. (ChannelViewModel.java:196)

com.sendbird.uikit.vm.ViewModelFactory.create (ViewModelFactory.java:41)

androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider$Factory.create (ViewModelProvider.android.kt:146)

androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider.get (ViewModelProvider.android.kt:123)

com.sendbird.uikit.providers.ViewModelProviders.resetToDefault$lambda$1 (ViewModelProviders.kt:259)

com.sendbird.uikit.fragments.ChannelFragment.onCreateViewModel (ChannelFragment.java:173)

com.sendbird.uikit.fragments.ChannelFragment.onCreateViewModel (ChannelFragment.java:96)

com.sendbird.uikit.fragments.BaseModuleFragment.onCreate (BaseModuleFragment.java:62)

com.sendbird.uikit.fragments.BaseMessageListFragment.onCreate (BaseMessageListFragment.java:173)

com.sendbird.uikit.fragments.ChannelFragment.onCreate (ChannelFragment.java:157)

[Frequency]
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It’s not happening always. Occurring with some users

[Current impact]
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Can not replicate the behavior, the app will crash based on the error log.