I got an automatic Voyager update from F-droid and now it complains of an out of date Webview version and tells me to update Webview from the Play store. But I don’t use the Play store and don’t want to enroll an account there. I get all my apps from F-droid. Is there a fix or workaround from this? thanks. Android 14 on Motorola Stylus 5g 2023 if that matters.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    19 days ago

    Edit: As for why Voyager requires System WebView >= 140… Android recently overhauled safe area insets and their rollout was kinda botched with poor backward compatibility.

    But the app works fine with a “too old” webview. Why warn about it?

    And please do feature detection instead of useragent parsing, if you do require some newest/uncommon features (but better don’t require that).

    • aeharding@vger.socialMEnglish
      2·
      19 days ago

      And please do feature detection

      I’m not sure how you’d do that with safe area insets. You could check for zero but some modern devices megitimately have zero safe area insets. Capacitor itself has to check Blink version for the SystemBars plugin.

      But the app works fine with a “too old” webview. Why warn about it?

      If you go into dark mode the status bar will be white with white text, because safe area doesn’t work properly.