android system webview won’t update

The problem of the android system webview won’t update

In this blog post, we will learn what one can do when the android system webview won’t update. One can get this error while building any application and then compiling it. The error that appears seems like as shown below:

One can claim from the above error that the problem is with Android System WebView that causes this error, not Chrome. 

Solution

The issue is that existing SIGSEGV handlers are being clobbered by the Google Play Service WebView and associated kinds, which causes problems for all native programs that depend on signal handlers (e.g. Houdini).

By changing the MONO DEBUG option to “explicit-null-checks,” it is feasible to get around the necessity for a SIGSEGV handler for NullReferenceException raising. One may accomplish this by adding a file to your App project and selecting AndroidEnvironment: Build. As the last step one needs to add the following line at the very end of the file:

MONO_DEBUG=explicit-null-checks

Another solution can be while the issue is being rectified, one can continue working on your project by uninstalling the WebView updates. It crashed in most of the cases when an exception was thrown, as we discovered. It stopped crashing if the user switched from using C# Exceptions to Java.Lang.Exception.

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