This tag refers to the Google Chrome browser version for the Android platform.
Questions tagged [android-chrome]
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Android Chrome runs requestAnimationFrame at 60FPS but renders at 30FPS
I am building a game with JS and I was testing it on Android Chrome and noticed that it is not working smooth, I could see stutters. Then, I set out to fix the performance problems thinking that my code is not optimized.
I started debugging the game…

laltin
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Why can't chrome read local html file on android?
When I open a html file the chrome( on android ) says that file is not readable. But I have given permissions to file and media for chrome.
Please help me to solve this! Thank you!

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Website-specific page zoom on Android Chrome?
On iOS Safari, there's a Aa button to resize text/page zoom on any specific website (including one we have been working on).
I couldn't find a similar function on Android Chrome aside from a global text size adjuster under Settings. That affects all…

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Onbeforeunload event in Android Chrome doesn't get fired
I need to save my session token in localStorage in order to get it back when user reloads the page:
window.addEventListener('beforeunload', this.savetoken.bind(this));
window.addEventListener('unload', this.savetoken.bind(this));
function async…

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Why is Android Sign Out via Chrome Custom Tab losing cookies
My current Android Application uses Chrome Custom Tabs to both Sign In & Out.
androidx.browser:browser:1.3.0-alpha04
The longer our users are signed in the greater the chance that user Sign Out fails.
e.g. when the user has ben signed in for 60+…

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Android Chrome does not automatically update service worker
I have a simple PWA in which push notifications are sent out daily. Push messages are turned into notifications through the following more or less trivial service worker:
self.addEventListener("push", function(event) {
if (event.data) {
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Android - Get status codes of web pages opened in browser
In desktop browsers, an extension can trivially obtain the status codes of web pages opened in the browser. By status code I mean 200, 302, 404, 502 etc ...
HTTP response status codes
Response.status
Now say that we have an Android App which is…

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Building chromium android as library [android aar archive]
Want to build chrome project as aar instead of apk.
Tried to change target_type to android_library from android_apk for chrome public apk but doesn't work. Looks like it would need a series of changes in different files for eg rules.gni, …

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Theme color meta tags not working with specific color
A single color, old lace, is not working for me as a theme-color in the meta tag in Chrome Android.
Other colors work well. I tried providing the hex triplet instead and still nothing.
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Abderrahim Benmelouka
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Android Oreo WebView renders layout too small after 2nd loading
On some Android Oreo devices, when I load an url on webview for the first time, the URL page loads properly. However, when I load the URL again, the page is zoomed out. On devices lower than android oreo, the page loads properly for all devices.…

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NullPointer Exception on BitMap.getwidth() at chromium-TrichromeWebViewGoogle.aab
I was getting below crash in Android Webview. I tried to load the webview for the functionality within the app and got this crash. Please advise on it.
It's crashing on Android 13 (Samsung S21). Note: It is not crashing in Google Pixel (which has…

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Android Chrome (106) sometimes fails to resize to full screen after keyboard usage
I noticed a strange behaviour using Google Chrome for Android (Version 106.0.5249.79) on an Android 12 device: It seems that leaving an input field and therefore resizing the viewport to the complete screen height sometimes fails and the viewport…

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how to maintain specific version for embedded web view across different devices?
We have embedded web view using webkit in our app.
implementation 'androidx.browser:browser:1.3.0'
But when we install this app in different devices (mobile, android boxes, android tv's) the webview versions are showing different in different…

Vamsi Krishna
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Android Chrome not cache big file even fetching by force-cache
I want to load and cache a big data file from the server.
The dict.json file is about 30MB big.
fetch('/data/dict.json', {cache: "force-cache"})
In Desktop Chrome, it works as expected.
However, in android chrome, it still load the file everytime…

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Android Chrome failed to repeat very long background image
One of my project requires to display a very long image (height to width ratio is very high, which is 1920x7500) as background image. The background image should repeat at y-axis, too.
However, I have noticed that only Android Chrome have issue in…

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