From 0da4ded574c84065e907f2bca2fae7a72793a6a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Gerleman <ngerlem@meta.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:06:48 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Cleanup PreparedLayoutTextView Recycling

Summary:
Everything in `initView` is already initialized implicitly, so should only be called during recycling, where we are also missing `selectionColor`.

Changelog: [internal]

Differential Revision: D93327082
---
 .../react/views/text/PreparedLayoutTextView.kt       | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/PreparedLayoutTextView.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/PreparedLayoutTextView.kt
index afd3cefc09e0..6b9ba111099d 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/PreparedLayoutTextView.kt
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/PreparedLayoutTextView.kt
@@ -85,21 +85,17 @@ internal class PreparedLayoutTextView(context: Context) : ViewGroup(context), Re
     @DoNotStrip get() = preparedLayout?.layout?.text
 
   init {
-    initView()
     // ViewGroup by default says only its children will draw
     setWillNotDraw(false)
   }
 
-  private fun initView() {
-    clickableSpans = emptyList()
-    selection = null
-    preparedLayout = null
-  }
-
   fun recycleView(): Unit {
-    initView()
     BackgroundStyleApplicator.reset(this)
     overflow = Overflow.HIDDEN
+    clickableSpans = emptyList()
+    selection = null
+    selectionColor = null
+    preparedLayout = null
   }
 
   override fun onDraw(canvas: Canvas) {