bug: Android app stuck at Splash Screen when first running after installation

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

@capacitor/cli: 4.2.0
@capacitor/core: 4.2.0
@capacitor/android: 4.2.0
@capacitor/ios: 4.2.0

Platform(s)

Android

Current Behavior

After installing an app that created from Capacitor 4 on Android, when first opening it, it stuck at Splash Screen. It is needed to force stop it and run it again to solve the problem.

This is only happened when launchAutoHide: false is set in capacitor.config.ts.

Here is the demo: https://streamable.com/thpma9

Everything is OK when I stay at Capacitor 3.

Expected Behavior

The app never stuck at Splash Screen.

Code Reproduction

In capacitor.config.ts

import { CapacitorConfig } from '@capacitor/cli';

const config: CapacitorConfig = {
  appId: 'com.example.app',
  appName: 'Example App',
  webDir: 'www',
  bundledWebRuntime: false,
  android: {
    initialFocus: false
  },
  plugins: {
    SplashScreen: {
      useDialog: false,
      androidScaleType: "CENTER_CROP",
      launchAutoHide: false,
      androidSplashResourceName: "splash",
      showSpinner: false,
      splashFullScreen: true,
      splashImmersive: true,
      layoutName: "launch_screen",
    }
  },
  cordova: {
    preferences: {
      ScrollEnabled: 'false',
      BackupWebStorage: 'none',
      orientation: 'portrait'
    }
  },
  server: {
    iosScheme: "ionic"
  }
};

export default config;

In ionic-app/android/app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml, below is added

<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBarLaunch" parent="Theme.SplashScreen">
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/splash</item>
</style>

Other Technical Details

npm --version output: 8.11.0

node --version output: v16.15.1

pod --version output (iOS issues only):

Additional Context

To fix this issue, I temporarily downgraded the project to Capacitor 3. In ionic-app/android/app/src/main/res/values/styles.xml, I changed back the code to

  <style name="AppTheme.NoActionBarLaunch" parent="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">#00a5aa</item>
  </style>

[tomfong]

@hoi4 I can’t reproduce it now too. Don’t know what’s the trick. Anyway, thanks for your help.

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