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joskes
joskes

Reputation: 61

cordova/ionic app crashes after startup on older versions of android

The app runs fine on ios and android 4.4+ and lollipop. However on older android versions (e.g 4.1.1) the app crashes directly after I start it.

Full stacktrace her is the logcat stack trace on such a tablet (Not sure which piece I had to copy) here the link

The exception is rather vague.

Thank you!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1312

Answers (1)

vdj4y
vdj4y

Reputation: 2669

android 4.4+ use chromium as default browser, while any version below use android-browser. It is much weaker browser. If your app runs perfectly in ios or android-4.4, then this could be the reason.

one work around is to use crosswalk by intel. cordova-crosswalk. Read More.

Basically it wraps your app in chromium browser, and package it as android app. when the app run, it run chromium first( instead of android-browser) and then the code inside of it. noticable cons is extra 15-20mb to your app filesize.

  • to migrate from cordova to crosswalk cordova. read More.

In the recent update, it seems there is new command to migrate app automatically. But what i did previously, was to do manual migration (by copy paste).

> few Tips if you do manually:
> 1. create new crosswalk project from cli
> 2. copy files in **www folder in cordova** to **www folder in crosswalk**
>        EXCLUDING one file : config.xml

> 3. Install your plugin manually. Read More: http://goo.gl/wF4CmD.
> 4. in crosswalk,set the config.xml manually.

Upvotes: 2

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