Android: app faulty on re-opens after minimising with hardware "back" (affects screen, keyboard, status bar, deep links)

[dancherb]

Sometimes when re-opening the app, the status bar becomes black and opaque at the top, and the keyboard behaviour with regards to content on-screen stops working. It is as if they've both been set to their defaults. This persists until the app is swiped closed and re-opened.

To reproduce (thanks to @alikazemkhanloo):

Open your app and close it with hardware back button, then open recent apps, and open your app from there

"react-native": "0.61.5" - observed on physical device, does not occur on emulator (may be dependent on Android version).

My AndroidManifest.xml setting is android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

I have tried both using methods and props on the StatusBar component to style it - none work to prevent this issue:

StatusBar.setBackgroundColor("rgba(0,0,0,0)")
StatusBar.setBarStyle("light-content")
StatusBar.setTranslucent(true)

<StatusBar barStyle="light-content" backgroundColor='rgba(0,0,0,0)' translucent/>

Similarly: on Android, deep links don't work when the app is already open in the background from pressing "back" out of the app. Minimising/closing the app by pressing home or force stopping is fine and deep links will work from this state.

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[dancherb]

I've found a series of issues that describe this bug that were locked by a bot.

#23058

They helpfully give a way to reproduce the bug:

Open your app and close it with hardware back button, then open recent apps, and open your app from there

[dancherb]

Something else I've noted is: on Android deep links don't work when app is already open in the background from pressing "backing" out of the app (pressing home or force stopping is fine).

It seems like the state that the app is put into when you press the Android back button to minimise you is pretty buggy? Is there any documentation on how these states cometogehter?

[Ashoat]

I'm not sure it'll help, but try adding this to your MainActivity.java:

  @Override
  public void invokeDefaultOnBackPressed() {
    moveTaskToBack(true);
  }

From Android docs for onBackPressed:

The default implementation simply finishes the current activity, but you can override this to do whatever you want.

Perhaps the activity "finishing" is what is causing some of these issues for you.

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