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10. Crash app when open web_view on android device

Date: 2022-07-20

Status

Open

Context

• When using a WebView inside of a Scrollview, some content renders a completely distorted page and some content even crashes the app. This problem only affects Android the same app, on iOS the same code results in a correctly rendered web page. Rendering the same content also works fine on Android, when not embedding the WebView inside of a scrollview.

• Flutter version has problem: >= 3.0.0

• Library webview_flutter version used: 3.0.0

Decision

• Temporary solution: Set maximum height of WebView on Android device equal to device physical size height

Consequences

• Email content is displayed well on Android devices. No more distortion and crashes
• The content scroll bar appears inside the email detail display.

Reference

• Issue detail