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serviceWorker API not available?

See original GitHub issue

Bug description: navigator.serviceWorker API unavailable within webview. User agent reported by the webview: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; ONEPLUS A3010 Build/PQ2A.190305.002; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/72.0.3626.121 Mobile Safari/537.36

To Reproduce:

<WebView
        source={{ html: `<script>alert(navigator.serviceWorker)</script>` }}
      />

Expected behavior: navigator.serviceWorker API should be available from Android Webview 40?

Environment:

OS: Android
OS version: 9
react-native version: 0.59.9
react-native-webview version: 5.12.0

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State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:5

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2reactions

magbicalemancommented, Sep 16, 2019

@mhingston did you end up resolving this somehow, or choosing another platform?

1reaction

wentokaycommented, Jul 30, 2022

navigator.serviceWorker won’t be available via inline HTML

it can only be used on a webpage that’s loaded over SSL, i.e.

<WebView source={{ uri: "https://somewherehostingtheserviceworker.com" }} />

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