bug: Platform.ready() never fires when using Crosswalk

[jbrailsford]

Type: bug

Ionic Version: 2.x

Platform: android 4.1 webview

Having to support a specific API level, 16, Ionic 2 doesn't render properly at all on that, so I installed Crosswalk (latest: 2.1.0) which got the app to render, howver, as a side effect, the platform.ready() never fires, take for example the default app code of:

initializeApp() {
this.platform.ready().then(() => {
// Okay, so the platform is ready and our plugins are available.
// Here you can do any higher level native things you might need.
StatusBar.hide();
//Splashscreen.hide();
});
}

When using Crosswalk, the StatusBar is never hidden, this happens during live reload debugging and when the app is packaged & installed on the device. When running in live reload, the console reports that the device ready is not firing.

My installed plugins are:

cordova-plugin-console 1.0.4 "Console"                                                                                                                                                                        
cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview 2.1.0 "Crosswalk WebView Engine"                                                                                                                                             
cordova-plugin-device 1.1.3 "Device"                                                                                                                                                                          
cordova-plugin-splashscreen 4.0.0 "Splashscreen"                                                                                                                                                              
cordova-plugin-statusbar 2.2.0 "StatusBar"                                                                                                                                                                    
cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.3.0 "Whitelist"                                                                                                                                                                    
cordova-sqlite-storage 1.4.8 "Cordova sqlite storage plugin"                                                                                                                                                  
ionic-plugin-keyboard 2.2.1 "Keyboard"                               

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Cordova version is: 6.4.0
Ionic version is: 2.1.4

Could you suggest a method of either fixing this or an alternate method of backwards supporting Android 4.1.1?

Regards,

Joe

[jbrailsford]

Just as an added comment, I'm testing the same build on an S7 with the latest android release, and seeing the same results as in the 4.1 device, device ready never fires.

[jgw96]

Hello, unfortunately I cannot seem to reproduce this on any of my Android devices. Would you mind posting a repo or zipping up your project and linking to it here so that i can reproduce? Thanks!

[dylanvdmerwe]

I'm having the same issue with my apps. Crosswalk never fires the device ready method. Nothing being output that gives any indication that something is wrong. Tested on Nexus 5 running Android 6.1 and some other Android devices.

[ivandroid]

Same here with the following conf:

Ionic: 1.3.2
Ionic CLI: 2.1.4
Cordova: 6.4.0
Crosswalk: 21+
Android: 5.0
Device: LG G2

[DrGanmon]

Try Cordova 6.3.1 if u use Xwalk 21... it will fix that problem ;)

[dylanvdmerwe]

Cordova CLI: 6.4.0
Ionic Framework Version: 2.0.0-rc.1
Ionic CLI Version: 2.1.4
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.1.2
Ionic App Scripts Version: 0.0.36
ios-deploy version: 1.9.0
ios-sim version: 5.0.10
OS: Mac OS X Sierra
Node Version: v6.9.1
Xcode version: Xcode 8.1 Build version 8B62

[ivandroid]

Cordova@6.3.1 didn't fix the problem.

Edit: After removing and adding the android platform it finally works! Thanks to DrGanmon!

[jgw96]

@dylanvdmerwe Are you also using crosswalk 21 ?

[dylanvdmerwe]

@jgw96 yeah the latest one https://github.com/crosswalk-project/cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview/releases/tag/2.1.0

[jgw96]

So it looks like the current workaround for this issue is to add crosswalk, and then remove the android cordova platform and add the android cordova platform. Also, just to be transparent, this is starting to look like either a cli issue, or an issue with the crosswalk plugin so this issue may get moved to the cli repo after some more review. Also, how is everyone here installing crosswalk? Using the instructions on the repo that @dylanvdmerwe linked to in the above message?