<video> tag in HTML crashes ionic app in android

Ionic Framework
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Our Ionic app uses videogular2 package along with HTML video tag to have a video player . It was working fine for the past few years but suddenly from last week the android app crashes when video is played .

When I tried to have just video tag alone in my app it still causes the crash , so I’m able to pin down the issue to video tag in html file . But it works fine in web and iOS app . I would be grateful if someone can help/share experience since this is a major functionality in the app.

Here is the sample code:

    <vg-player oncontextmenu="return false" onselectstart="return false" ondragstart="return false" (onPlayerReady)="playerReady($event)" (click)="toggleControl($event)" >

        <video #master [vgMedia]="master" [vgMaster]="true" webkit-playsinline=“webkit-playsinline”
            playsinline="playsinline" preload="metadata" autoplay="false" crossorigin
            [src]="config.video.src | sanitizeResource">
        </video>

Ionic Cli version : 6.9.1
Angular version: 7.2.16

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you should check if you have updated your app packages recently and if yes, try to understand which one crashes

3

Angular version was upgraded to 7 a month back . So do you suggest checking that too, because it was working fine for 3 months with Angular 7

4

Try to make a brand new project and copy the code, if it works on the new project, i would start checking all the packages

5

Thanks for the reply. You are saying to try with Angular 6 ? Just making sure because I’m still learning to resolve these issues

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No, if it was working fine. Maybe you have updated some other dependencies or libraries. Do you have any version control system (like git) so you can go back to a certain date and check if you have changes in your packages.json

Anyway, try the same.code in a blank project

7

Yea got it. I do use git so I can try

8

I reverted all my dependencies to previous working state . Still the app crashes on playing video

9

Looks like an issue with Android Webview . Downgrading version means app doesnot crash like before . But still figuring out how to find a fix for this , since asking clients to downgrade is not feasible

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Try to make a brand new project and copy the code, if it works on the new project, i would start checking all the packages