From a086da4177d9890389ce07044185200257214616 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Kapos <adam@yousician.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:34:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Linking.openSettings() rejecting on Android when there is
 no current activity

openSettings wrapped getCurrentActivity() in checkNotNull, so it rejected with "Could not open the Settings: Required value was null" whenever the React context had no activity. The intent already carries FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK, so start it from the application context then, as sendOSIntent does.
---
 .../react/modules/intent/IntentModule.kt        |  9 ++++++---
 .../react/modules/intent/IntentModuleTest.kt    | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/intent/IntentModule.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/intent/IntentModule.kt
index d3338be3ddc6..d3881a6e770c 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/intent/IntentModule.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/intent/IntentModule.kt
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 package com.facebook.react.modules.intent
 
-import android.app.Activity
 import android.content.Intent
 import android.net.Uri
 import android.nfc.NfcAdapter
@@ -169,7 +168,7 @@ public open class IntentModule(reactContext: ReactApplicationContext) :
   override fun openSettings(promise: Promise) {
     try {
       val intent = Intent()
-      val currentActivity: Activity = checkNotNull(reactApplicationContext.getCurrentActivity())
+      val currentActivity = reactApplicationContext.getCurrentActivity()
       val selfPackageName = reactApplicationContext.packageName
 
       intent.setAction(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS)
@@ -178,7 +177,11 @@ public open class IntentModule(reactContext: ReactApplicationContext) :
       intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK)
       intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY)
       intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_EXCLUDE_FROM_RECENTS)
-      currentActivity.startActivity(intent)
+      if (currentActivity != null) {
+        currentActivity.startActivity(intent)
+      } else {
+        reactApplicationContext.startActivity(intent)
+      }
 
       promise.resolve(true)
     } catch (e: Exception) {
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/modules/intent/IntentModuleTest.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/modules/intent/IntentModuleTest.kt
index 6528449969bd..9dbe70fefd74 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/modules/intent/IntentModuleTest.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/test/java/com/facebook/react/modules/intent/IntentModuleTest.kt
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 
 package com.facebook.react.modules.intent
 
+import android.content.Intent
+import android.provider.Settings
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.LifecycleEventListener
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.Promise
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactApplicationContext
@@ -65,6 +67,21 @@ class IntentModuleTest {
     assertThat(promise.rejected).isEqualTo(0)
   }
 
+  @Test
+  fun openSettings_withNullActivity_startsSettingsFromApplicationContext() {
+    whenever(context.currentActivity).thenReturn(null)
+
+    val promise = SimplePromise()
+    intentModule.openSettings(promise)
+
+    val intentCaptor = argumentCaptor<Intent>()
+    verify(context).startActivity(intentCaptor.capture())
+    assertThat(intentCaptor.firstValue.action)
+        .isEqualTo(Settings.ACTION_APPLICATION_DETAILS_SETTINGS)
+    assertThat(promise.resolved).isEqualTo(1)
+    assertThat(promise.rejected).isEqualTo(0)
+  }
+
   internal class SimplePromise : Promise {
     companion object {
       private const val ERROR_DEFAULT_CODE = "EUNSPECIFIED"