This tag refers to the Google Chrome browser version for the Android platform.
Questions tagged [android-chrome]
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Android - WebView language changes abruptly on Android 7.0 and above
I have a multilingual app with primary language English and secondary language Arabic.
As described in the documentation,
I have added android:supportsRtl="true" in the manifest.
I have changed all xml properties with left and right attributes to…

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Android Chrome browser address bar shifts fixed element hitareas
It seems Android Chrome has a pretty major bug where sometimes the address bar hiding/showing causes fixed elements to shift their bounding box down/up by the browser's address bar height. So the elements visually stay in the same spot, however, the…

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How can I stop Chrome background updates killing my app?
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The Problem
We have various logs indicating that a background update to Chrome is killing our app, which uses webviews. The logs all follow a similar pattern;
3034 3049 I ActivityManager: Force stopping com.android.chrome appid=10115…

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Get Android Chrome Browser Address bar height in JS
How do I get the height of the address bar in JavaScript in the Chrome browser for Android (marked by red rectangle in left picture)? I need to know that as it disappears while scrolling down and I need to react to that because the viewport height…

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Wake-lock works in browser, but not as PWA
I have a web app that uses wake lock (see below) - I have registered the origin trial and added the code to my index.html. - see https://lucid-franklin-4016c2.netlify.com/
When I load the page in the latest version of Android Chrome the phone stays…

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navigator.share won't resolve nor reject when user cancels native selector on android
So, we are implementing navigator.share() (https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/09/navigator-share) in an Ionic v3 PWA.
It works, but there's a little problem we encountered which we don't know how to fix: when the navite share selector…

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Open android-app scheme with Chrome on Android
I was wondering how I'd have to configure my app to open it with android-app://application.id?
adb shell am start android-app://application.id
The URI_ANDROID_APP_SCHEME seems not to work as documented. Instead Chrome and Firefox only open a…

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how prevent user typing special character in android browsers on keydown event (event.preventDefault not wotking)
the event.preventDefault does not working in android as I know.
so what is the best alternative way to prevent user typing special character in android on keydown event.
note: the replace value solution when input event fired is good but in my…

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Font size display issue on Google Chrome for Android
I have a webpage where the font-size of body 16px.
On Google Chrome for Android, I have the following problem: When the page initially loads, the font size in elements which don't have a font-size defined (and therefore inherit the font-size from…

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SpeechSynthesis in Android-Chrome: cannot change English voice from US English
I'm using the speech synthesis API on Android-Chrome. The issue is that although there are 4 English voices available, it is always US English that is used by the browser, no matter what the code specifies. I can use other languages e.g. French,…

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Blob distorting audio on Android Chrome
I am trying to input audio stream from microphone and save it to blob so I could send it to Speech Recognition API endpoint. This works perfectly on google chrome on desktop, but I noticed errors when I would switch to a mobile device browser…

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How does Chrome hide "GIF" button from Gboard on its search view?
I am looking for an elegant solution to block gif/emoji input from Gboard on Android. Since I use
androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView, there is no trivial way of leveraging onCreateInputConnection to create a custom AppCompatEditText. However I…

Song
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Trusted web activity - Digital assets link validation for intranet/private web app seem to be failing
I've followed this doc to
Create a wrapper Android app based on this sample project for my UI application which runs in non-public domain in our corporate servers.
Add assetlinks.json in my Angular 6 PWA application, with SHA256 fingerprints of my…

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Android (V. 8.0.0 Chrome 61.0.3163.98) / Jquery - prevent default behavior when clicking enter on editable div
When clicking "enter" inside an editable div with Android chrome (Android 8.0.0 Chrome 61.0.3163.98) if the cursor is in-front of a word or in the middle of it, I cannot prevent the default behavior from happening. (When I catch the event with…

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Android Chrome: HTML
I have a form with CSS-styled and radio buttons that simulate a tabbed-structure. Only the s are visible and should be click-able.
It looks something like:
[Economy|Business|First]
HTML:

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