The new Android app crashes without further information if Chrome is not installed on the device. I’m running 4.4 and I had seen the same issue with the beta app, which is why I tried the same with the release from Google Play.

From the Android app thread : [image] Beta testing the Android mobile app The app normalizes on Chrome stable for all browsing. If you do not have Chrome stable installed you can not use the app. Chrome beta and canary are not supported. Built in browser or custom browsers are not supported. This…

Surely though it shouldn’t just crash though @sam ? Couldn’t it pop up a message saying “Chrome is required?”

This is now fixed in 1.0.7 which was just released. We will display a proper warning if Chrome is missing. https://github.com/discourse/DiscourseMobile/commit/24e4eda3e94f257eea803a9c5df1ba939596eba5

This is @codinghorror ’s call take it up with management :slight_smile: I think it is kind of correct, you should not be running 4.3 or earlier cause you are under a bus. https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/197346-google-throws-nearly-a-billion-android-users-under-the-bus-refuses-to-patch-os-vulnera…

[image] sam: take it up with management :slight_smile: I’d like to! [image] sam: We should not be encouraging you Releasing an app that supports an OS with known security vulnerabilities doesn’t mean you are encouraging usage of said OS. There are many reasons why people are still us…

[image] jomaxro: why does Discourse work on XP and earlier versions of Windows? It doesn’t. Try it. [image] jomaxro: Why support older browsers with vulnerabilities, and not just the newest ones? We don’t. Try it. You’ll get a page urging you to upgrade (unless we broke that recently)…

I don’t have a method of installing old browsers, so I’m relying on an online service to test (take it for what it’s worth). Looks like IE does say that an upgrade is neccessary, but Chrome and Firefox don’t: Chrome 10 [image] Firefox 10 [image] IE 9 [image] As for your comment that XP won’…

XP doesn’t support modern HTTPS. Note: No versions of Internet Explorer on Windows XP support SNI https://www.digicert.com/ssl-support/apache-secure-multiple-sites-sni.htm Sorry.

I see that. It also says Chrome supports it even on XP. I’m not suggesting XP should be supported, I’m simply trying to understand how you decide what to support. IE, Firefox, and Chrome have all have severe and critical vulnerabilities patched in most versions, but really old versions are still su…

Android app crashes if Chrome is not installed

Product Support

jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) November 10, 2016, 11:28pm 5

Why the bump in minimum API version? Perhaps I’m missing something, but Chrome Stable is supported on API level 16. Why require 18?

Topic		Replies	Views
DiscourseHub compatibility on older Android devices Feature	7	1213	November 18, 2020
Discourse Android app requires Chrome Stable Product Support	5	1241	May 8, 2018
Please release FLOSS version of Android App on F-Droid Feature	1	1394	May 1, 2017
Impact of Let's Encrypt changes in Discourse users on old Android versions Self-hosting hosting	9	1530	December 21, 2020
Support for older Android versions Feature	3	940	March 23, 2014

Android app crashes if Chrome is not installed

Related topics