Crash in PaymentSheet.presentWithPaymentIntent after upgrading stripe-terminal-android from 5.0.0 to 5.1.0

[rdlabo]

Summary

I am a maintainer of @capacitor-community/stripe, an open-source Capacitor plugin that wraps stripe-android and stripe-terminal-android.

After upgrading stripe-terminal-android from 5.0.0 to 5.1.0, apps using our plugin crashing when calling
PaymentSheet.presentWithPaymentIntent from stripe-android.

This issue impacts users integrating both Stripe Terminal and PaymentSheet on Android.

The crash did not occur with stripe-terminal-android 5.0.0.

Code to reproduce

1. Add stripe-terminal-android:5.1.0
2. Initialize Stripe Terminal
3. Call PaymentSheet.presentWithPaymentIntent(...)
4. The app crashes during PaymentSheet UI inflation

Crash log:

FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.capacitor.stripe, PID: 18676
android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #13 in
com.capacitor.stripe:layout/stripe_fragment_primary_button_container:
Error inflating class com.stripe.android.paymentsheet.ui.PrimaryButton
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

Downgrading stripe-terminal-android to 5.0.0, or removing it entirely, resolves the issue.

Android version

• Android16

Impacted devices (Android devices or readers)

SDK version

• com.stripe:stripe-android: 22.4.+
• com.stripe:stripeterminal-core: 5.1.+
• com.stripe:stripeterminal-taptopay: 5.1.+
• com.stripe:stripeterminal-appsondevices: 5.1.+

Note: This issue does not occur in 5.0.0

Other information

[usaimbhayat-stripe]

Hi @rdlabo ,

Thanks for reaching out. We are aware of this issue internally and are looking into a resolution. We will keep you posted on when a fix will be available, thanks for your patience.

[rdlabo]

@usaimbhayat-stripe Thanks for the quick reply!

I was hoping to include this as part of the major v8 update of the Capacitor plugin, but do you happen to have any rough idea of the timeline for the fix?

I’m currently trying to decide when to adopt v5 on our side, so even a small hint would be really helpful. Thanks!

[usaimbhayat-stripe]

We are actively looking into fixing this, but due to the holiday season this won't be addressed in a fix any earlier than the 5.2.0 release. We are targeting the second half of January at the moment.

[rdlabo]

Thanks for the update — I’m really glad to have a clearer timeline!

For @capacitor-community/stripe-terminal, the plan is to release plugin v8.0.0 using Stripe Terminal SDK v4. Then, once this is resolved, we’ll upgrade to SDK v5 starting from plugin v8.1.0. Since v4 is already stable, I don’t expect any issues for users with this approach.

Thanks again for the transparency — this really helps with planning on our side 🙏

[jamier-stripe]

Hi @rdlabo, this bug has been addressed in 5.2.0. You will be able to update when this version is released. Thank you for your patience!

[usaimbhayat-stripe]

5.2.0 is now available, closing out this issue for now. Feel free to re-open if the issue persists.