android Failed to load WebView provider: No WebView installed

Question

Recently, we\'ve started seeing this new entry in our crashlytics which says that android can\'t find the webview package on the device.

Here\'s the full stacktrace

Answer 1

Please refer to this issue.

Workaround

try {
    super.setText(spannableStringBuilder, type);
} catch (Exception e) {
    // WebView is not installed in some devices by default, Linkify.MAP_ADDRESSES causes the exception
    if (e.getMessage().contains("webview")){
        setAutoLinkMask(Linkify.WEB_URLS | Linkify.EMAIL_ADDRESSES | Linkify.PHONE_NUMBERS);
    }
    super.setText(spannableStringBuilder, type);
}