Issues with adding the widget to the MIUI Home Screen

[Lijucay]

Has anyone gotten an issue with the MIUI Homescreen crashing after attempting to add the widget of GitHub to it? Cuz I certainly can't add it. Seems the problem is only on MIUI, not on other launchers.

This is the error message I receive.

[brenoepics]

Same issue here

[Jackwillow786]

If you're having trouble adding a widget to the MIUI Home Screen, try restarting the phone or clearing the launcher cache. I had a similar issue once while setting up a home repairs app widget, and that worked!

[Lijucay]

This did not work for me unfortunately.

[JohnPullmann]

Same issue

[jXD20072]

Same here, it's also happening in HyperOS

[brenoepics]

This answer seems AI-generated or overly generic and doesn’t address the actual problem. The crash is caused by a NullPointerException in the GitHub app due to improper handling of a nullable parameter in an Intent. This is unrelated to MIUI, as other apps widgets work fine. The issue lies in GitHub’s app code, not the launcher or OS.

The correct fix for @github-staff is probably to add proper null checks, as discussed in cases like this StackOverflow thread. Generic advice like updating MIUI or clearing caches won’t help here, as the root cause is in the app itself.