Crash on launch - NullPointerException in UpdateLayoutWrapper

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Device & OS: Android 16, (Surya)
App Version: Forkgram 12.4.2.0 (org.forkgram.messenger)

Description:
App crashes immediately on launch. No updates to the app or the system were performed before the crash — it worked fine previously. Clearing cache and restarting the phone did not fix the issue.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Launch Forkgram.
2. App crashes instantly.

Expected behavior:
App should open normally and display chats.

Actual behavior:
Crash occurs during LaunchActivity.onCreate, with a NullPointerException:

Logs
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean org.telegram.ui.UpdateLayoutWrapper.isUpdateLayoutVisible()' on a null object reference
at org.telegram.ui.MainTabsActivity.checkUi_tabsPosition(Unknown Source:2)
at org.telegram.ui.MainTabsActivity.onFactorChanged(Unknown Source:2)
at me.vkryl.android.animator.BoolAnimator.setFloatValue(Unknown Source:15)
at me.vkryl.android.animator.BoolAnimator.onFactorChanged(Unknown Source:0)
at me.vkryl.android.animator.FactorAnimator.setFactor(Unknown Source:12)
at me.vkryl.android.animator.FactorAnimator.animateTo(SourceFile:0)
at me.vkryl.android.animator.BoolAnimator.setValue(SourceFile:0)
at me.vkryl.android.animator.BoolAnimator.setValue(SourceFile:0)
at org.telegram.ui.MainTabsActivity$MainTabsActivityControllerImpl.setTabsVisible(Unknown Source:7)
at org.telegram.ui.DialogsActivity.checkUi_mainTabsVisible(Unknown Source:59)
at org.telegram.ui.DialogsActivity.createView(Unknown Source:3521)
at org.telegram.ui.ViewPagerActivity$2.bindView(Unknown Source:66)
at org.telegram.ui.Components.ViewPagerFixed.setAdapter(Unknown Source:67)
at org.telegram.ui.ViewPagerActivity.createView(Unknown Source:38)
at org.telegram.ui.MainTabsActivity.createView(Unknown Source:0)
at org.telegram.ui.ActionBar.ActionBarLayout.attachView(Unknown Source:6)
at org.telegram.ui.ActionBar.ActionBarLayout.addFragmentToStack(SourceFile:0)
at org.telegram.ui.ActionBar.ActionBarLayout.addFragmentToStack(SourceFile:0)
at org.telegram.ui.LaunchActivity.onCreate(Unknown Source:738)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:9306)
at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:9284)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1548)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:4481)