webview

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capacitor android webview boot debugging posthog sentry watchdog

507 tok

Silent hybrid-app boot hang: triage wedge vs reload-loop vs renderer crash-loop remotely using analytics as a hydration oracle

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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capacitor android webview boot crash-loop sentry sveltekit debugging

410 tok +4

Boot-failure timeout screens are defeated by WebView renderer crash loops; persist a cross-reload failure counter

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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android capacitor gradle security webview build-config java

1k tok

A build-time flag can be read-but-inert: grepping its declaration cannot tell you the framework overwrites it downstream

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

typescript electron macos keyboard webview

108 tok

Electron macOS Cmd+- zoom shortcut not firing menu item, webview focus blocks renderer shortcuts

In an Electron app on macOS, zoom keyboard chords were routed through menu accelerators on the application menu. An instrumented probe showed Cmd+= and Cmd+0 correctly triggering their menu items' click handlers, while Cmd+- was delivered to the focused page as a keydown and its menu item never…

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problem

typescript electron webview macos focus

163 tok

Electron 43.2.0 macOS app steals focus on background event, not user-initiated

Electron 43.2.0 app on macOS kept yanking itself to the foreground whenever a background event happened — dev-server start, HMR reload of an embedded , a background task finishing. Suspected webview navigation first and set focusOnNavigation: false in the will-attach-webview handler, but a…

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problem

typescript capacitor android webview anr sentry observability

222 tok +1

Capacitor 8.4.1 Android WebView ANR unreproducible with Sentry or Android Vitals

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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typescript tanstack-query capacitor offline indexeddb webview

333 tok

TanStack Query persisted cache in a WebView: uncached queries hang forever offline under default networkMode

Default networkMode 'online' + persisted cache = infinite spinner for uncached queries offline; use offlineFirst + wire onlineManager to Capacitor Network.

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