Ionic apk builds fine locally but Gitlab APK gets white screen

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This is a very wierd issue. When I build a signed apk locally either through vscode or android studio, the apk works perfect.
These are my commands that I use to build. Like I said locally this works fine
ionic build --prod
npx cap sync
npx cap copy
cd android
./gradle assembleRelease

However when I upload to Gitlab I use the same sequence and the apk is built to the outputs/apk/release folder fine but when installing I get just a white screen.

Here is the gitlab that I am using

build_android:
  stage: build
  
  script:  
    - npm install -g @ionic/cli --legacy-peer-deps
    - npm install @capacitor/core @capacitor/cli --legacy-peer-deps     
    - ionic build --prod
    - npx cap sync android
    - npx cap copy
  artifacts:
   paths:
   - node_modules  
  cache:
    key:
      files:
        - package-lock.json
        - package.json
    paths:
      - node_modules/
      - android
    policy: pull
    
sign_android:
  stage: sign
  image: eclipse-temurin:17-jdk-jammy  
  needs: [build_android]
# Packages installation before running script
  script:
    - ls
    - apt-get --quiet update --yes
    - apt-get --quiet install --yes wget unzip    
    - export ANDROID_HOME="${PWD}/android-sdk-root"
    - install -d $ANDROID_HOME
    # Here we are installing androidSDK tools from official source,
    # (the key thing here is the url from where you are downloading these sdk tool for command line, so please do note this url pattern there and here as well)
    # after that unzipping those tools and
    # then running a series of SDK manager commands to install necessary android SDK packages that'll allow the app to build
    - wget --no-verbose --output-document=$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools.zip https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-linux-${ANDROID_SDK_TOOLS}_latest.zip
    - unzip -q -d "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools" "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools.zip"
    - mv -T "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/cmdline-tools" "$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/tools"
    - export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/tools/bin
    - wget --quiet --output-document=gradle.zip https://services.gradle.org/distributions/${ANDROID_GRADLE_VERSION}-bin.zip
    - unzip -q gradle.zip
    # Nothing fancy here, just checking sdkManager version
    - sdkmanager --version

    # use yes to accept all licenses
    - yes | sdkmanager --licenses > /dev/null || true
    - sdkmanager "platforms;android-${ANDROID_COMPILE_SDK}"
    - sdkmanager "platform-tools"
    - sdkmanager "build-tools;${ANDROID_BUILD_TOOLS}"   
   
     - cd android
  
    - ./gradlew assembleRelease
   
   
  artifacts:
   paths:
      - android/app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk