WebView Crash on Android 5-5.1 (API 21-22) Resources$NotFoundException: String resource ID #0x2040002

Question

I am in the process of updating an Android app from API 27 to API 29 and I noticed that I get a crash when trying to render a WebView on an emulator based on 5.0 and/or 5.1. Thi

Answer 1

It seems to be a bug with appcompat 1.1.0 - https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/141132133

Looking at #30 in that discussion, this solved my problem:

// add to gradle module:app
configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy {
        force 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0-rc01'
    }
}