bug: App not working on modern Huawei devices

[sabereen]

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

  @capacitor/cli: 4.6.2
  @capacitor/core: 4.6.2
  @capacitor/android: 4.6.2
  @capacitor/ios: 4.6.2

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/ios: not installed
  @capacitor/core: 4.6.2
  @capacitor/cli: 4.6.2
  @capacitor/android: 4.6.2

Platform(s)

android

Current Behavior

Huawei has its own webview and not using google`s one.
Its versions is not same as chrome!
Capacitor detects it as legacy webview (<60) even in modern webviews and redirects the user to errorPath.

Expected Behavior

App should working in modern Huawei devices!

[AntonNB]

Pls, fix bug

[AntonNB]

Same issue on Honor devices. Apparently, when there was no GMS out of the box, problems arise.

[maningame]

Have the same issue, so I did some research. The problem is that the Huawei webview have its own versioning, which is different from Android system webview. Current is 12.1.3.371 or something like this.

Capacitor check version by WebView.getCurrentWebViewPackage() and its return 12.x.x.x (package version, not a chrome version inside it). I made quick workaround by adding the folllowing code to Bridge.java > isMinimumWebViewInstalled() after PackageInfo info = WebView.getCurrentWebViewPackage():

if (info.packageName.equals("com.huawei.webview")) {
    return true;
}

Its allow to bypass the check, but obviously the minWebViewVersion became useless in that case because we cant do version matching between huawei webview and android webview. To solve this issue I do additional check in my app. Hope this was helpfull.

[markemer]

Should be fixed in any 5.0.0 release - as of today the most current is 5.0.0-beta-1

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