1067425 - Screen goes black when invoking the share overlay on Android 4.4+

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Overlays, defect, P2)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Attachment: video.mp4

Currently when one uses the share overlay on Android L Preview, the entire screen goes black before the overlay is shown.

See YouTube video: http://youtu.be/nKesevex5t0

This does not happen with other providers such as Google+ seen in the video.

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Lucas - Can you investigate? You might be our only FE Android L user.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Maybe not entirely restricted to Android L? I noticed today on my Nexus 5 (4.4.4), invoking the share overlay from inside the browser, e.g, on a bookmark, will also black out the screen for a second.

Comment 3

[Lucas Rocha (:lucasr)]

FWIW, I can only reproduce this on L.

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

If I had to guess, I'd say this is because we specify android:hardwareAccelerated="true" for our application, and that's interacting with the transparent activity.

E.g., 

https://developer.appcelerator.com/question/153905/white-flash-android-when-hardware-accelerated

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20446

Comment 5

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

I see this happening on a 4.4.x device too.

Comment 6

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I don't even see this at all on the Nexus 9. I blame L Preview.

Comment 7

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I don't see this at all on the Nexus 5 with 5.0 (factory image)