Tell JS layer about crashes
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Alexander
### Description
It would be great if the JS-layer (Capacitor app) could know that the underlying web view crashed and subsequently restarted. Right now there is nothing to discern these from a regular app startup and users won't be aware that data was lost.
### Platforms
- [x] iOS
- [x] Android
- [ ] Web
### Request or proposed solution
More concretely, an issue that occur frequently is that we take a photograph via an
<input capture>
element and do on-the-fly resize using JS and canvas, and the web view crashes, causing the page to reload. But for the user this isn't obvious, it's just a short flash when the web view reloads, and they don't know that the photograph failed and they've just lost data.If we could listen to these events we could show a warning to the user.
This is the code on iOS today:
## Platform Support Requested
- Android
- iOS
## Describe Preferred Solution
There are multiple solutions, but one could be a listener similar to
appRestoredResult
, that would let us know that the app restored after a crash.We'd then have the ability to show a warning to the user.
## Additional Context
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This related issue about the web view crashing when taking photos: https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/issues/2265
### Additional Information
This is an old issue that was closed, with a request to reopen if it's still valid.
Martin Donadieu (Capgo)
meanwhile i made a plugin for this https://capgo.app/docs/plugins/webview-crash/