Android System WebView Requirement

[micahalcorn]

One user of a Huawei Y5 (Android 8.1.0) reported that his app crashes when he attempts to select an image from his gallery during listing creation. He did not report a similar issue during profile creation, although he may have only included a name. @tomlinton suggested that he install Android System WebView, but we haven't heard back.

@franckc thought this was related to #2344, but it may be less of a problem considering there were no complaints about the webview loading.

See also #3325 (probably not related) 🤖

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[tomlinton]

This is separate from #2344. It is a bug in Chromium that relates to showing large images at smaller sizes, either via CSS or width/height attributes. Because it is in Chromium the crash won't show up in Sentry, but it does show up in Play Console:

signal 5 (SIGTRAP), code 4 (TRAP_HWBKPT)

It is possible that this doesn't happen with the profile image because we resize it before displaying it, and we don't with the listing images. Someone more familiar with the upload/image cropping/resizing will need to comment (@nick, @shahthepro, @sparrowDom). Since it is not in our code the only viable solution we have is to display thumbnails by resizing them rather than using CSS/height/width attributes.

We should be able to reproduce this in a simulator. The reported Android version was 8.1.0. Also @kayyoo23 you should be aware of this bug and see if you can follow up with the user to check if upgrading the system WebView helped.

[nick]

Right now I think we resize images to a max of 2,000 px width or height.

We'd need to implement something like #2187 / #947 (which I think we should do anyway for performance reasons) to fix this properly I guess.