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Failed to load WebView provider: No WebView installed android.webkit.WebViewFactory.getProviderClass

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Good day! Every week my app crashes in the production mode on android devices. Basically it is happening on Xiaomi, Samsung, LGE phones with Android 10.

Bug description: The app crashes in the production mode with an exception: Caused by android.webkit.WebViewFactory$MissingWebViewPackageException Failed to load WebView provider: No WebView installed

To Reproduce: I don’t have steps. Just a crash report from crashlytics.

Caused by android.webkit.WebViewFactory$MissingWebViewPackageException: Failed to load WebView provider: No WebView installed
       at android.webkit.WebViewFactory.getWebViewContextAndSetProvider(WebViewFactory.java:339)
       at android.webkit.WebViewFactory.getProviderClass(WebViewFactory.java:402)
       at android.webkit.WebViewFactory.getProvider(WebViewFactory.java:252)
       at android.webkit.CookieManager.getInstance(CookieManager.java:47)
       at com.facebook.react.modules.network.ForwardingCookieHandler.getCookieManager(ForwardingCookieHandler.java:180)
       at com.facebook.react.modules.network.ForwardingCookieHandler.get(ForwardingCookieHandler.java:58)
       at okhttp3.JavaNetCookieJar.loadForRequest(JavaNetCookieJar.java:61)
       at com.facebook.react.modules.network.ReactCookieJarContainer.loadForRequest(ReactCookieJarContainer.java:44)
       at okhttp3.internal.http.BridgeInterceptor.intercept(BridgeInterceptor.java:84)
       at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:147)
       at okhttp3.internal.http.RetryAndFollowUpInterceptor.intercept(RetryAndFollowUpInterceptor.java:126)
       at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:147)
       at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:121)
       at okhttp3.RealCall.getResponseWithInterceptorChain(RealCall.java:254)
       at okhttp3.RealCall$AsyncCall.execute(RealCall.java:200)
       at okhttp3.internal.NamedRunnable.run(NamedRunnable.java:32)
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:919)

Expected behavior: The app is not crashes.

Screenshots/Videos: No have, because it is happening in the production mode. I can not catch the crash in the develop mode. I checked many times.

Environment:

OS: Android
OS version: Android 10
react-native version: 0.62.0
react-native-webview version: 9.2.2

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Created 3 years ago
Reactions:9
Comments:24 (2 by maintainers)

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9Hyeonwoocommented, Feb 15, 2021

I am not sure this issue related with react-native repository. There is a PR to resolve same issue in react-native. If you want to check, here is link to PR I found a way to reproduce this issue and commented on that PR.

After Disable Android System WebView system app, you can get AndroidRuntimeException exception with MissingWebViewPackageException message.

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tszajna0commented, Dec 9, 2020

I see it on LG K31 and K51. Not much details, just a trace in crashlytics.

I also have some doubts if this is really a ReactNativeWebView issue, or maybe ReactNative in general. Look at the top of stack trace:

Caused by android.webkit.WebViewFactory$MissingWebViewPackageException: Failed to load WebView provider: No WebView installed
   at android.webkit.WebViewFactory.getWebViewContextAndSetProvider(WebViewFactory.java:339)
   at android.webkit.WebViewFactory.getProviderClass(WebViewFactory.java:402)
   at android.webkit.WebViewFactory.getProvider(WebViewFactory.java:252)
   at android.webkit.CookieManager.getInstance(CookieManager.java:47)
   at com.facebook.react.modules.network.ForwardingCookieHandler.getCookieManager(ForwardingCookieHandler.java:180)

It’s not web view creation, it’s merely the cookie handler. Working hypothesis: ReactNative cookie handling (used for generic network access) has a dependency on system web view in Android. When this web view isn’t available (which isn’t guaranteed, according to stackoverflow in some previous comment), then ReactNative crashes. If I’m right, then https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/18322 needs to be reopened.

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