Application crashes on startup on older devices about bowser

[iachimoe]

+1, on my 3rd generation iPad running iOS8.1, the app shows just the URL bar and bowser logo on startup, is completely unresponsive, then seems to exit after about 10 seconds.

[stefanalund]

We are looking into it. Thanks.

[mccob]

Also crash as same step that iachimoe iPad crash with iPad mini on iOS 8.1

And crash before start on iPhone 4 running last iOS 7 available

[evanly]

Same experience here on an even older device: iPad 2 running iOS 8.1.2, app crashes on start after briefly showing the main GUI and logo in the centre. Thanks for your quick response on Twitter pointing me here.

[stefanalund]

@evanly as I mentioned on Twitter, you can download the code for Bowser here on GitHub and install the app though Xcode. This requires access to an iOS developer account though.

[iachimoe]

Any updates on this? FYI, I just received the latest upgrade to Bowser on my iPad 3, and it still fails to start properly.

[stefanalund]

Sorry @iachimoe we have not had time to look further into this. We know that it's because it takes too long time to start the JavaScript bridge the first time, but we don't have a solution as of now. When running fully native apps on top of OpenWebRTC, there is no such problem since the bridge is not used.

[zoplonix]

+1 on iOS 8.1.3 on an iPhone 4s.

Is there a timeout for how long to wait for the JavaScript bridge to be responsive? If it was increased or removed that may help since the older devices run slower.

Or is this this an issue of the code hanging itself up or and causing the process to halt? So we have to find where it's getting hung up like not enough memory or missing API or whatever

[stefanalund]

The JavaScript bridge takes too long to start and the OS kills the app, at least that is our guess. An interesting experiment would be to execute that piece of init code in a separate thread, using GCD for example.

[stefanalund]

That would be owr_bridge_start_in_thread(); in the AppDelegate.

[stefanalund]

I may have a patch that solves this issue, needs a bit more testing before I publish it. :-)

[stefanalund]

Seems to work: #29

Tested on an iPhone 4s and iPad Mini (1st gen)

[stefanalund]

Just submitted version 0.4 to the App Store. Among other improvements it fixes the startup issue on older devices. If you can't wait for the Apple review you can install Bowser from master using Xcode :)

Let me know if you still see problems and we can re-open this Issue. Thanks for your patience!

[mccob]

so OpenWebRTC will me available with 64 bits ?

[stefanalund]

Yes @mccob absolutely. We are transitioning over to a new build system called Cerbero, which has support for building iOS on all "platforms" including arm64: https://github.com/EricssonResearch/openwebrtc/wiki/Building-OpenWebRTC-with-Cerbero

You can get started already now if you would like, the documentation may be a bit sparse still.