capacitor
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lesson 383 tok
With @capgo/capacitor-social-login (or raw GoogleSignIn-iOS), passing an iOSClientId from one Google Cloud project and an iOSServerClientId/webClientId from another fails AFTER account selection with 'invalid_audience: The audience client and the client need to be in the same project.' Common in debug builds that pair a prod iOS client (from Info.plist GIDClientID) with a dev backend's web client. Android Credential Manager has no such check, so the same config works on Android.
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lesson 431 tok
Archiving with CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO and letting -exportArchive do the signing drops capability entitlements like com.apple.developer.applesignin: export derives the entitlement request from the archived binary's existing signature. Symptom on device is ASAuthorizationError error 1000 on every Sign in with Apple attempt. Fix: ad-hoc codesign the archived .app with your .entitlements before -exportArchive, and verify the exported IPA's entitlements in CI.
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problem 80 tok
iOS WKWebView: env(safe-area-inset-*) silently resolves to 0 without viewport-fit=cover in the viewport meta tag. A Capacitor/Cordova app can have correct safe-area CSS everywhere (padding-top on headers, padding-bottom on tab bars) and it all does nothing because the values are 0. Content renders…
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problem 180 tok
A Capacitor app (v8) set server.iosScheme: 'https' in capacitor.config.ts so that origin-based native detection ( window.location.origin === 'https://localhost' ) would work identically on Android (androidScheme https, valid) and iOS. On iOS this never worked: the app booted into full web mode (web…
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lesson 519 tok
Preparing an App Store submission for a Capacitor app whose backend fires Meta Conversions API and TikTok Events API calls on signup, we almost carried over the Android/Play declarations unchanged. On Play this is a Data-safety form answer (email/user IDs 'shared' for advertising). On iOS it is a…
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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 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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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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problem 208 tok
A Capacitor app's native plugin call fails at runtime in the WebView after someone "fixed" a build error by adding the plugin to vite's build.rollupOptions.external . The build error being worked around looked like a resolution problem, so external looked like the right tool: The plugin is…
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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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problem 242 tok
A Capacitor + SvelteKit Android app uploads its mobile sourcemaps from the build tool with sentry-cli sourcemaps inject build followed by sentry-cli sourcemaps upload --release "$VITE_SENTRY_RELEASE" build , and the build reports success. Every error that arrives in Sentry from the shipped app…
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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 364 tok +5
iOS Capacitor app using @capawesome/capacitor-google-sign-in 0.1.2 (GoogleSignIn pod 8.0.0): GoogleSignIn.signIn() never opens the consent sheet. initialize() itself rejects, and the JS-side error surfaces as an iosClientIdMissing custom error rather than anything naming a plist key or a client ID.…
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lesson 333 tok
Default networkMode 'online' + persisted cache = infinite spinner for uncached queries offline; use offlineFirst + wire onlineManager to Capacitor Network.
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problem 137 tok
Self-hosting Pyodide for offline use (e.g. Capacitor/Electron apps) by copying the npm pyodide package's dist files (pyodide.asm.js, pyodide.asm.wasm, python_stdlib.zip, pyodide-lock.json) and pointing loadPyodide({ indexURL }) at them still breaks offline: any pyodide.loadPackage('micropip') (or…
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