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Can you please address comment#2?
Unfortunately the issue would be closed within 7 days if there is no further update.

Attached is a sample project that demonstrates the issue in two ways:
- when long pressing text (e.g. the headline)
- when opening a select
Both will ultimately load an alert dialog with a list adapter that has the layout ids for the content set to 0.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fe2ym2F0o4XWEDHvKY8-UzpvSJq4wbWq/view?usp=drive_web (WebViewAppCompatBug.zip)

This is reproducible on an API 21 emulator (Nexus 5 configuration, no Chrome installed).

NB There is a second issue when loading the web view in the first place which in this sample project is worked around by using a resource wrapper. This is already reported under https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/140884278 and the attached project will also display this error when commenting out lines 13-15 in MainActivity.kt.

Please take a look at this issue and provide your inputs.

Wrapping Resources is not supported by the framework and you must not create your own instances of Resources at all (the APIs to do so are now marked deprecated after they were accidentally exposed).

We can't do anything to fix this - you need to solve the underlying problem with appcompat and stop wrapping it like this, and then resources will work.

While I agree this is WontFIx from WebView's perspective (the WebView APK in question already shipped), it seems like this should still be considered a regression from appcompat's perspective, given the community can no longer test on lower-level emulators. We've received several unique user reports of this issue, not to mention the internal reports which led to filing issue 139710458.

Surprisingly, issue 142086375 claims this bug repros on Marshmallow, which is something we haven't observed so far and doesn't fit into the current hypothesis:

> in Android 6.0 (API 23) it crashes on tapping the <select> element.

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From issue 141132133:

> This change is the root cause: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/support/+/26079d87c79a64829f036236353fac1dae4e0613%5E%21/#F2
>
> sAlwaysOverrideConfiguration forces updating the Resources configuration and therby messing up the webview inflation on older devices.

Chis, any chance this checks out? I didn't look too closely into this, so I'm not sure if there are consequences to not overriding the configuration on L-M only, or perhaps further limited old WebView versions only.

Same problem appear simply by using a WebView on Android 5 / 5.1 (on actual devices, no emulator) with appcompat:1.1.0 directly causing a crash (on display, no interaction needed).

Dropping the priority of this, since there's no feasible fix for this.

So, a bug that was laser-focused and easily reproduced by simply including a WebView in an Activity crashing on Android 5 / 5.1 devices with appcompat-1.1.0 but not appcompat-1.1.0-rc01 was marked as duplicate of this, and somehow despite knowing the commit that caused it and being able to reproduce it, and not crashing from Android 5 until that commit it is not feasible to fix. Seems odd to me given the commit seemed to enable a feature, meaning that the choice is crash or have a feature (which you can't use because you crashed). Wouldn't it be better to just not support that feature fully vs crash? Just a thought

We got this crash on a Samsung Nexus 10 with Android 5.1.1 at 100% on any WebView

Can this be changed back to p2 priority? Phrase "no feasible fix" is not enouth to ignore application crash and make this less importaint

I'm not sure if you can see the duplicate of this ticket. We have lots of tickets which have different causes of the WebView crashes are marked as duplicate with no clarification.

Here is one of them.
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/141436946

It will be great if you can take some time to revisit duplicate tickets. I believe a lot of developer are looking for the fix or workaround.

Thank you!

Hi, i have same issue in android 22 and 23. Any update?

+1, I'm getting the same issue

I've tried downgrading like you suggested, and it's working for Android 23 but not 22, and the error message changes to:

W/System.err: android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: Unable to add window -- token null is not for an application
        at android.view.ViewRootImpl.setView(ViewRootImpl.java:566)
        at android.view.WindowManagerGlobal.addView(WindowManagerGlobal.java:282)
        at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.addView(WindowManagerImpl.java:85)
        at android.app.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:298)
        at com.android.org.chromium.content.browser.input.SelectPopupDialog.show(SelectPopupDialog.java:133)
        at com.android.org.chromium.content.browser.ContentViewCore.showSelectPopup(ContentViewCore.java:2229)
        at com.android.org.chromium.base.SystemMessageHandler.nativeDoRunLoopOnce(Native Method)
        at com.android.org.chromium.base.SystemMessageHandler.handleMessage(SystemMessageHandler.java:53)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5254)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:903)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:698)

Same issue, SDK 21 with androidx.appcompat 1.1.0

+1 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/141351441#comment10

+1 same here

+1 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/141351441#comment10
Hope it gets fixed.

Hi given there are quite a few issues with higher priority/severity marked as dup of this issue, can someone bump up the priority/severity of this issue?

Add a trivial repro case

This is a project created by New Android Project -> Blank Activity -> Add WebView to layout/main_activity.xml, run on API21 emulator and it crashes with the following trace

11-27 14:12:26.160 3218-3218/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.example.crashingwebview, PID: 3218
    java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.crashingwebview/com.example.crashingwebview.MainActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #17: Error inflating class android.webkit.WebView
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2298)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2360)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:144)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1278)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5221)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:899)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:694)
     Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #17: Error inflating class android.webkit.WebView
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:633)
        at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:55)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:682)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:741)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:806)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:504)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:414)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:365)
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatDelegateImpl.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImpl.java:555)
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:161)
        at com.example.crashingwebview.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.kt:10)
        at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5937)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1105)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2251)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2360) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:144) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1278) 
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) 
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5221) 
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372) 
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:899) 
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:694) 
     Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:288)
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:607)
        at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneLayoutInflater.onCreateView(PhoneLayoutInflater.java:55) 
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.onCreateView(LayoutInflater.java:682) 
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:741) 
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:806) 
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:504) 
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:414) 
        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:365) 
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatDelegateImpl.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImpl.java:555) 
        at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:161) 
        at com.example.crashingwebview.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.kt:10) 
        at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5937) 
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1105) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2251) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2360) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:144) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1278) 
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) 
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5221) 
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372) 
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:899) 
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:694) 
     Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: String resource ID #0x2040002
        at android.content.res.Resources.getText(Resources.java:274)
        at android.content.res.Resources.getString(Resources.java:360)
        at com.android.org.chromium.content.browser.ContentViewCore.setContainerView(ContentViewCore.java:702)
        at com.android.org.chromium.content.browser.ContentViewCore.initialize(ContentViewCore.java:608)
        at com.android.org.chromium.android_webview.AwContents.createAndInitializeContentViewCore(AwContents.java:619)
        at com.android.org.chromium.android_webview.AwContents.setNewAwContents(AwContents.java:758)
        at com.android.org.chromium.android_webview.AwContents.<init>(AwContents.java:608)
        at com.android.org.chromium.android_webview.AwContents.<init>(AwContents.java:546)
        at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium.initForReal(WebViewChromium.java:312)
        at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium.access$100(WebViewChromium.java:97)
        at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium$1.run(WebViewChromium.java:264)
        at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium$WebViewChromiumRunQueue.drainQueue(WebViewChromium.java:124)
        at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium$WebViewChromiumRunQueue$1.run(WebViewChromium.java:111)
        at com.android.org.chromium.base.ThreadUtils.runOnUiThread(ThreadUtils.java:144)
        at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium$WebViewChromiumRunQueue.addTask(WebViewChromium.java:108)
        at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium.init(WebViewChromium.java:261)
        at android.webkit.WebView.<init>(WebView.java:548)
        at android.web

changing appcompat library version to 1.1.0-rc01, the app launches with an empty webview without crashing.

The issue is a bug in old versions of WebView (most of which are installed in API 21-22ish), which AppCompat doesn't have any control over. The background is that those versions of WebView seem to crash if an app uses ContextThemeWrapper.applyOverrideConfiguration(), which AppCompat now uses quite heavily (as of v1.1.0-alpha03), especially for DayNight. The commit linked from #7 is actually a symptom rather than the cause. That commit just makes AppCompat use applyOverrideConfiguration() in more places, which then triggers the WebView issue. The same thing would happen if the app uses applyOverrideConfiguration() themselves, so reverting all of the changes in AppCompat would just cause more problems than it fixes.

Anyway, I've found a workaround which I *think* works, at least the tests are now all passing on API 21/22. Apologies for the delay in reaching this. It unfortunately wasn't an easy bug to find a workaround for.

Pending CL: https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/frameworks/support/+/1177665