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Getting Started with GeckoView not sufficient for android 4.4 or below #139

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CactiChameleon9 opened this issue Jun 13, 2020 · 0 comments

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CactiChameleon9 commented Jun 13, 2020

After following the (slightly unclear, the article listed was a big help) documentation I managed to get a simple GeckoView app, yet it crashed on android 4.4. After a while looking online I found this, with a workaround or solution:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567115

The bug should be mentioned in the getting started, if 4.3 and 4.4 is going to be supported in said persons app, preferably with the following workaround stated too (but a link is still better than nothing):

    implementation ("org.mozilla.geckoview:geckoview${geckoviewChannel}:${geckoviewVersion}") {
        exclude module: 'snakeyaml' // disable non-compatible yaml library
    }
    implementation "org.yaml:snakeyaml:1.26:android" // use updated yaml library compatible with old Android

This would save a fellow developer some (or a lot) of time. There is no shame in mentioning an issue - especially if a workaround/solution is mentioned.

Thank you for reading

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