Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)

Post by kevincox » Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 5:05 PM UTC

ProAm wrote: post #33

kevincox wrote: post #13

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I assume that this is uninstalling updates, which means that you are back to the WebView that came with your phone. This obviously opens a whole new can of worms as now you may be years of security updates behind. I really wish that popular stores had an option to roll back one version until the next update came out.

This is why auto-update is turned off for me. You just cant trust blindly updating things because there is no undo button for breaking changes.

Post by blacktriangle » Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 7:17 PM UTC

b0afc375b5 wrote: post #28

DoomHotel wrote: post #24

I wonder if Google's QA is getting worse. I had a broken Android Google Maps update last week where street view had multiple severe bugs: it didn't even show the blue lines when enabling the street view layer, split screen didn't show the marker for the virtual observer's location, and tapping in the map in split screen just rotated the view instead of moving the viewer to the new location. Something this broken shou…

I attended a webinar from a famous e-commerce platform. They mentioned that they no longer have QA and make use of CI/CD pipelines (edit: canary deployment, feature flags, etc.) to move fast and break things. I assumed that everyone else no longer has QA and just pushes emergency fixes in a JIT fashion. I also assumed that our company is traditional and backwards for still having QA.

Post by heavenlyblue » Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 9:45 AM UTC

meibo wrote: post #15

exabrial wrote: post #8

How does something like this make it to production? I couldn't reply to any work emails for the greater part of the evening yesterday. Adds more evidence to the case of "never use Google for your business".

You never made a mistake that made it through your test suite to production?