Android: Force use of WebView browser in Capacitor browser when access to Chrome is restricted

[patrickhuijten]

Bug Report

Plugin(s)

• @capacitor/browser

Capacitor Version

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Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: unknown
  @capacitor/core: unknown
  @capacitor/android: unknown
  @capacitor/ios: unknown

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/ios: not installed
  @capacitor/cli: 5.7.0
  @capacitor/android: 5.7.0
  @capacitor/core: 5.7.0

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Platform(s)

• Android

Current Behavior

We are deploying our application to a provisioned profile to our customers without direct access to Chrome. When using Browser.open, it tries to open Chrome, even though access to it is restricted. We get an error Your IT Administrator has restricted access to Chrome.

Expected Behavior

Is there a way to force a webview rather than Chrome using Capacitor Browser?

[Ionitron]

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[patrickhuijten]

Hi @IT-MikeS,

I think reproduction case is not really applicable here since the Android setup is quite specific to our organisation and I don't have access to the tools the system administrators use to provision the Android devices.

I'm trying to understand how exactly Capacitor determines which device browser to use to open inside the Capacitor window, and if there is any way to force it to use the native WebView instead of an instance of Chrome 😇