BrowserDescriptor null for some users

[developering]

Configuration

• Version: 0.9.1
• Integration: native(Java/Kotlin)
• Identity provider: Auth0

Description

@agologan I noticed the changes that you made in these commits:
d4fde44
e047a5e

We had started to have an issue where the BrowserDescriptor was null for some users, but could not figure out why it was happening. I was about to submit a bug here when I noticed that you had just made those changes. They appear to have fixed the issue, so thank you for that!

My question is...do you know why this started breaking? Did something change in the Android OS that triggered this? We've been seeing the issue on Samsung, Moto, Google, etc. Also seeing it on Android 8-11. We were at a loss for why it started happening, and why it only affected specific users. Just curious how you know to make that change and what might have caused it.

[Android3005]

I am currently using the appAuth version: 0.7.1 and facing the same above mentioned issue on 9-11 Android versions. So @developering just wanted to check if upgrading to 0.9.1 is fixing the BrowserDescriptor null issue for you.

[agologan]

I'm assuming you're referring to mBrowser being null in AuthorizationService.
If you read through issue #521 you'll notice the browser selector was returning incorrect results when having Opera (maybe other browsers too) set as default since at least Android 7.0.

@Android3005 I highly encourage you upgrade the lib version as there are many other fixes since 0.7.1.

[developering]

@Android3005 We updated to v0.9.1 and it fixed the issue for us. I don't fully understand what happened, but we started seeing a spike in ActivityNotFoundException errors in our logs. We hadn't pushed any other changes, so we don't know why it started happening so much.

That said, v0.9.1 completely took care of the issue for us.

Thank you, @agologan!

[1your]

Hiii sir

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