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

According to the TextView's sourceCode

if (mAutoLinkMask != 0) {
    ...
    if (Linkify.addLinks(s2, mAutoLinkMask)) {
        ...
    }
}

The textview with android:autoLink property will call Linkify.addLinks (reaches the method of WebView finally) and cause the crash.

So, we can remove the android:autoLink property and realize with other way to fix the problem.