Android app never gets past splash screen

[rudism]

Android app never gets past splash screen

[github-actions]

Hello 👋

Thank you for taking the time to open this issue with floccus. I know it's frustrating when software
causes problems. You have made the right choice to come here and open an issue to make sure your problem gets looked at
and if possible solved.
I'm Marcel and I created floccus and have been maintaining it ever since.
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[marcelklehr]

Mmh, the log is not very helpful, but given that the same version works on other devices it might be the Android version is too old?

[rudism]

Based on this error:

1711222207.586 10110 21066 21066 E Capacitor/Console: File: http://localhost/js/native.js - Line 2 - Msg: Uncaught ReferenceError: globalThis is not defined

My best guess is the webview on that device is too old (it's v60-something, I forget exactly). It has its own com.android.webview package that doesn't update with Google's version from the play store so it seems to be locked in, as the device itself is very unlikely to get any software updates from the manufacturer. Possible solution that I found involves adding some polyfills to get capacitor working on older webview versions:

https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/problems-with-white-screen-after-splash-screen-on-android-7-and-below-ionic-7-with-angular/238019

[marcelklehr]

I added support for Android Chrome v60+, hopefully that works