[Bug]: Not loading UI

[ACR-Jeff]

Guidelines

• I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
• I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the bug report I want to file, without success.
• I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the bug I want to file, without success.
• This issue contains only one bug.

Describe the bug

1. Open app
2. App loads to black screen
3. Notification says "FreeTube is running in the background"

Expected Behavior

Updated to version 0.20.0.115, After doing so the UI will not load, Only loads to a black screen,

Issue Labels

content not loading

FreeTube Version

0.20.0.115

Operating System Version

Android 10

Installation Method

.apk

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

0.19.2.110

Additional Information

No response

Nightly Build

• I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

[MarmadileManteater]

My first guess would be that this issue is related to the compatibility with that version of android. I haven't tested the new cordovaless build on anything below android 11 at this point in time.

The only way to know for absolute sure what the problem is would be to download the nightly, enable USB debugging on your device, connect to your PC, and open a chrome web browser to chrome://inspect#devices.

(The nightly is important because I recently switched to building the releases for release instead of for debugging, so you can't see the browser logs for the release build.)

[ACR-Jeff]

My first guess would be that this issue is related to the compatibility with that version of android. I haven't tested the new cordovaless build on anything below android 11 at this point in time.

The only way to know for absolute sure what the problem is would be to download the nightly, enable USB debugging on your device, connect to your PC, and open a chrome web browser to chrome://inspect#devices.

(The nightly is important because I recently switched to building the releases for release instead of for debugging, so you can't see the browser logs for the release build.)

Possibly. Yet I had a previous version installed and it worked, Now after installing the new version the UI doesn't load, I tried to downgrade after writing this issue the downgraded version now won't load the ui? I will try a recent nightly build. Thank you

[MarmadileManteater]

Hm, that is very strange that it doesn't open when you revert back. I would try copying your app data out of the data folder and wiping it to see if its some sort of data contamination issue.

For clarity, 0.19.2.110 still runs on Cordova. Cordova was made for old android versions, so I didn't really have to test on older versions myself. Whereas 0.20.0.115 is a plain jane webview app, so I had to manually write the android integration points myself. This has various benefits. It is much easier to do a lot of things, but because of this, I don't actually know for sure if it works on older versions than what I tested in development.

[ACR-Jeff]

I have also tried this not just on my cell phone with android 10 but also Nvidia shield TV running Android TV 9 version 8.2.3 with a fresh factory reset and this same exact thing occurs with it as well. The UI just will not load, Just a white screen appears. Nothing more happens.

So I decided to install the latest nightly build freetube-0.21.3-nightly-494-Android, Causes the UI to be all jumbled and scattered text/images all random.
Went down the list installing each one on the latest page, None worked other then the latest one above. All of the UI's were white in exception to the one nightly above.

The Nvidia Shield TV is a very popular device, I would think it would at least function on the shield. Didn't work for me. Even after upgrading to the latest Android TV version 9.1.1 available for my model.