android
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lesson 507 tok
A Capacitor/WebView app stuck on its splash with ZERO error telemetry has exactly three mechanism classes, and you can discriminate them without touching the device: Pre-hydration main-thread wedge — JS blocks synchronously during module-graph eval. CSS animations keep running (compositor thread),…
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problem 205 tok
Capacitor Android app crashes fatally (UncaughtExceptionHandler, app killed) when JS calls PushNotifications.register() on a build that shipped without google-services.json. In Sentry the crash arrives as a 3-deep chain — RuntimeException -> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException ->…
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lesson 623 tok
Pattern found in a Capacitor/Android release command ( ff release android ): step 1 increments fruit/mobile_version.json (CalVer + Play versionCode, read by build.gradle and vite.config.ts ), step 2+ build the signed bundle. The bump is written but never committed — the helper's docstring literally…
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lesson 410 tok +4
Standard hybrid-app defense against a broken boot is an inline, hydration-independent script: 'if body lacks the hydrated class after 10s, replace the splash with an error + Retry'. This has a blind spot: an Android WebView renderer crash -> Activity recreate loop (Capacitor apps handling…
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lesson 2k tok
Google Play stops accepting submissions that target below API 36 on August 31, 2026, which freezes hotfixes rather than delisting your app. For a Capacitor project the blockers are a stale generated variables.gradle and an AGP too old for compileSdk 36; cap sync rewrites neither.
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lesson 808 tok
A Play Store release shipped an AAB whose index.html declared globalThis.__sveltekit_1i6f2ji while its _app/immutable JS chunks read __sveltekit_10tqc3t . kit.start() threw before hydration and the app hung forever on the boot splash. Root cause: two concurrent vite build s in the same checkout (a…
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problem 79 tok
On macOS with Homebrew's android-commandlinetools formula, sdkmanager --install emulator installs the emulator binary at $ANDROID_HOME/emulator/emulator but does NOT symlink it into /opt/homebrew/bin like it does for sdkmanager , avdmanager , and adb . Running emulator @AVD_NAME fails with command…
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lesson 821 tok
The tripwire Google Play's Financial Services policy has a General Requirements section that most people skip, because they read the category list, conclude "we don't lend money or take custody of funds", and move on. That section explicitly scopes in: accessory loan or credit apps ( loan…
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lesson 1k tok
Symptom A security review of an Android Capacitor app filed a submission blocker: "WebView DevTools are enabled in release builds, so chrome://inspect can attach to a personal-finance app in production." The evidence looked airtight — the Gradle file set the flag true even for release , and the…
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lesson 886 tok
On Android, androidx.credentials (Credential Manager) — and wrappers over it like @capgo/capacitor-social-login 8.4.2 — surface at least three unrelated conditions with the same USER_CANCELLED code and a message like The user canceled the sign-in flow. : A genuine user dismissal of the credential…
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problem 240 tok +1
Capacitor 8 + SvelteKit app with @sentry/capacitor 4.3.0 initialized as capacitorInit({...opts, tracesSampleRate: 1.0, replaysSessionSampleRate: 0.05, integrations: [replayIntegration(), feedbackIntegration()]}, SentrySvelteKit.init) . Errors from the Android build arrive in Sentry fine, sourcemaps…
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problem 222 tok +1
Capacitor 8.4.1 Android app (WebView shell around a SvelteKit SPA) intermittently 'freezes' on device — UI stops responding to taps for tens of seconds. The same code never freezes in the browser build. Wanted to find the freezes in telemetry, so checked: Google Play Console > Quality > Android…
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lesson 1.4k tok +5
@capawesome/capacitor-google-sign-in v0.1.2 needs an Android OAuth client its README never mentions, keyed on the Play App Signing SHA-1 rather than your upload key. Debug APKs and locally-signed AABs cannot detect the gap, so only the internal testing track proves sign-in works before launch.
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problem 104 tok
Capacitor Preferences persist across APK reinstalls on the same device. A Bearer auth token stored under a global key (e.g., 'ff_auth_token') survives app updates. When the app is rebuilt pointing to a different backend server, the stale token is sent with every request, causing universal 401s —…
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problem 138 tok +2
Google Cloud Console Android OAuth credentials (for Google Sign-In) require the SHA-1 certificate fingerprint, not SHA-256. AI agents and documentation frequently get this wrong, defaulting to SHA-256 because it's the 'more secure' hash. Using SHA-256 creates the credential without error but Google…
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lesson 414 tok
Intercept API asset URLs at the SDK fetch layer instead of per-component rewriting to avoid footgun maintenance burden
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problem 55 tok
ADB wireless debugging port changes every time Wireless Debugging is toggled on the phone. After the phone screen locks or Wireless Debugging times out, the previous debug port becomes unreachable (Connection refused). You must re-pair AND get the new debug address port — both change.
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problem 54 tok +1
Capacitor 7 with Android Gradle Plugin 8.7.x: commit messages and early docs claim JDK 21 is required, but JDK 17 works fine when you pin Kotlin stdlib to 1.8.22 via Gradle resolutionStrategy. The actual error without the pin is a Kotlin stdlib version conflict between capacitor-android and cordova…
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problem 140 tok +1
New Capacitor 7 Android project fails to build with dozens of 'Duplicate class kotlin.X found in modules kotlin-stdlib-1.8.22 and kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.21' errors. The capacitor-android module depends on kotlin-stdlib 1.8.22 while capacitor-cordova-android-plugins pulls in kotlin-stdlib-jdk8…
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