Remote debugging webview render page differently on device and chrome inspect tab

olanrewaju Ahmed

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Jan 27, 2020, 5:25:43 AM1/27/20

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I was debugging a flutter android webview, when the page css scatters on the android device. I inspected using chrome remote debugging but the page display was okay in the chrome inspect tab. Please i need a way to be able to have same feel on both android device and chrome inspect tab so that i can debug the issue.

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PhistucK

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Jan 27, 2020, 5:29:55 AM1/27/20

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In these cases, I would assume it is more likely to be a browser bug than a CSS bug.

Probably a hardware acceleration issue (I assume remote debugging uses software rendering). You can verify by using software rendering in Android (I am not sure how, maybe there is a WebView setting).

You can search crbug.com for an existing issue and star it. If you cannot find one, file a new issue using the "New issue" link on the same page.

Please, do not add a "+1" or "Me too" or "Confirmed" (or similar) comment. It just wastes the time of Chrome engineers and sends unnecessary e-mails to all of the people who starred the issue.

You can reply with a link to the found or created issue and might get triaged (and fixed) faster.

Thank you.

☆PhistucK

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 12:25 PM olanrewaju Ahmed <hollar...@gmail.com> wrote:

I was debugging a flutter android webview, when the page css scatters on the android device. I inspected using chrome remote debugging but the page display was okay in the chrome inspect tab. Please i need a way to be able to have same feel on both android device and chrome inspect tab so that i can debug the issue.

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olanrewaju Ahmed

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Jan 27, 2020, 6:08:07 AM1/27/20

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There was no existing issue, so file the issue as you suggested @PhistucK

Thank you.

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