After some more research, I’ve found a discussion where other mobile developers are having the exact same issue.
It’s a bug in Samsung’s Android 14 version, which makes sense. The community page’s code in Sober Time has not been updated, but the issue started appearing.
For now, it’s Samsung’s “fault”, but I’ll try to find a workaround.
Samsung is updating its UI like crazy. First, I thought it would be a good thing, but with every update, I lose more functions that I need and get functions I would never use.
Thank you for taking care of it! Much appreciated!
I managed to implement a workaround, so the issue is resolved for now. I will try to publish this update tomorrow. There are a few other small issues I want to include in the update and I want to make sure everything is working well.
Basically:
This only happens on Samsung devices running Android 14
I was unable to reproduce it for the longest time, because I switched my Android device to Google Pixel a while ago. Development tools are just pure Android, not Samsung’s implementation of Android (One UI)
I tested this on a real Samsung device to replicate it
Displaying web resources in Android uses Android’s underlying web browser technology
Samsung’s new version destroys this web browser when you switch to a different app
Not sure if this is intentional or a bug. They might do it in an attempt to clean up resources on the device to make it seem more responsive
The workaround will reload your current page when you switch back to Sober Time. You’ll see the loading animation briefly.
Thank you to everyone who helped with reports, questions and information. I appreciate it.
At this point I’ve gotten so used to having to close/reopen the app each time I don’t even think twice about it, but I do hope it all works out in the end. Thank you for working so hard on this issue, and everything else you do to keep our community up and running
Wow! Im excited to get the workaround because im bouncing back and forth between apps. @Robin i truly appreciate your attention to this. Thanks for all you do!
Yes, this just happened to me. I was able to last night just fine but I just tried in the meme thread and couldn’t. I opened a reply box. It let me go into my photos and choose one but when I clicked it, it showed the loading screen and then my box was gone
Okay, I managed to fix it so that it doesn’t end up on the white screen and it still works with uploads. As an added bonus: you won’t have to sit through the reload animation anymore either.
Samsung apparently is releasing an official fix for this by the end of March, but we can’t wait that long.
I’ll release the update in the next day. Thanks again!