Fail/Crash to open app after installing react-native-webview dependency

[VitorPaludetto]

Bug description:

I installed the latest version of the lib and when I run yarn react-native run-android everything goes fine, but I can't get my app to open on the emulator after it. It keeps crashing. If I remove react-native-webview dependency my app opens normally.
I've tried to install older versions of the lib but the same happens.
I already wiped the emulator settings and cleared cache to see if it would work, but with no success.

Screenshots/Videos:

App Crashing when react-antive-webview is installed.

App opens when I remove the dependency

Environment:

• OS: Android
• OS version: 11
• react-native version: 0.63.4
• react-native-webview version: 11.6.2

[AlexPeret]

hi,

I've started facing the same problem after adding minHeight attribute to the style property, like this:

<WebView
    ...
    style={{backgroundColor: 'transparent', flex: 1, minHeight: '300px'}}
    ...
 />

replacing the minHeight's value to a number works fine:

<WebView
    ...
    style={{backgroundColor: 'transparent', flex: 1, minHeight: 300}}
    ...
 />

Environment:

• OS: Android
• OS version: 11
• react-native: 0.63.4
• react-native-webview: ^11.4.3

[alexcbluk]

I have a very similar android specific issue with version: ^11.6.4
Like yourself, I have ONLY installed the package via yarn add react-native-webview and my detox tests have been failing with the following error:

DetoxRuntimeError: Failed to run application on the device

    HINT: Most likely, your main activity has crashed prematurely.

    Native stacktrace dump: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No direct method <init>(ILjava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;I)V in class Lkotlin/jvm/internal/FunctionReferenceImpl; or its super classes (declaration of 'kotlin.jvm.internal.FunctionReferenceImpl' appears in /data/app/~~tVQXRextVO2nUllF1-6L6g==/com.whichmobileapp-R1eVS54uc89qIOHE9sUwbg==/base.apk)

What makes it even more confusing is that I haven't even started using the < WebView /> component anywhere in the code base.

Environment:

OS: Android
MacOS 10.15.7
react-native: 0.64.2
react-native-webview: ^11.6.4

[alexcbluk]

To resolve the issue I had with detox, I had to use a lower version of the kotlin-gradle-plugin which can be found in android/settings.gradle

classpath 'org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.3.71'

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