Full screen stopped working

[Demetto]

The update that added the pop-up blocker icon on the bottom toolbar has disabled the browser from expanding videos to full screen on any website. It's not like the other issues where a small screen appears, when I click the full screen button the screen blinks and then nothing happens. I found a work around by pressing Settings on my remote, then going to picture settings, then pressing back on my remote, the fullscreen will suddenly appear. I'm on a Sony x90j smart tv. I tried clearing all the data, uninstalling and re-installing but it didn't work.

[Daddy7x6]

Ditto - full-screen works on streaming sites, but not on embedded videos on webpages. There's an unsatisfactory workaround by changing user-agent to, for example, Chrome desktop, and clicking the "expand" icon, but that leaves borders on a scrollable webpage. It has to be due to the pop-up blocker addition, as full-screen is, in effect, a pop-up on many websites.

[Daddy7x6]

Update - I've tried toggling the pop-up blocker off - it's site-based, as it should be, and should enable the full-screen functionality, but doesn't, even after clearing the cache and reloading the webpage. Also, holding the OK key down to get the "open in new tab" menu up has stopped working on some thumbnail links on some webpages on several websites. That's VERY annoying, as it's a major benefit of tabbed browsing.

[truefedex]

Hi. Thank you for feedback. Can you provide example URLs of sites where you experiencing problems? Also android version can help me to reproduce&fix the issue.

[ajlai]

Full screen button on embedded video player doesn’t work for me as well. Example url: (any of the embedded videos) https://twitter.com/Vimeo/status/1615412164407222272/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1615412164407222272&currentTweetUser=Vimeo

I’m using a Chromecast with Google TV Android TV OS Version: 12

TV Bro info below: Version: 1.8.6 com.google.android.webview:109.0.5414.86

[MailYouLater]

I wasn't even able to try using full-screen video at that link. The page doesn't load videos at all if Twitter doesn't think you're in a mobile browser _{^{(and what kind of error message is "Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.")}} and I checked it with every UA string offered in TV Bro as well as in multiple other browsers, and while sometimes it loaded videos _{^{(and sometimes that error)}} it never once offered me a full-screen button at all.

Can anyone share a more reliable test link?

[Demetto]

I mostly use TV Bro to watch videos on Rumble. Here is a test link https://rumble.com/v2zgi0-french-bulldog-puppy-vs.-cat.html

My Android TV OS version is 10

[MailYouLater]

That video loads up, plays, has a full screen button, and enters full screen for me.

Affected: No
Device:   MiBox S
OS:       Android TV 9
TV Bro:   v1.8.6
WebView:  108.0.5359.128

[takeutiy]

Hello, Reproducible by this one? https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/

Impossible to enter full screen for me.

TV Bro. v1.8.6 Model. Chromecast OS. Android TV 12 OS Build. STTE.220920.015.A1.9261725

[truefedex]

Thank you for the links. Seems this not relates to tvbro version or android version. This bug relates to WebView system component. Can be reproduced in Android System WebView Canary. I will look for workaround.

Temporary fix for users: disable applications auto-update in android settings and remove updates for "Android System WebView" system application.

[takeutiy]

Thank you for your prompt feedback. After removing updates for Android System WebView, my TV bro crashed. But it worked after re-installed. Looks sufficient for a temporary solution, at least for me :-)

[Demetto]

Removing updates from Webview and reinstalling TV Bro worked for me as well. Thanks!

[truefedex]

Posted issue in google's issue tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/266279675

Please do +1 at this issue in google's tracker if you experienced it too.

[MailYouLater]

I got the update to Android System WebView version 109 today, and can verify that it breaks entering full-screen video mode on my MiBox S with Android TV 9 too. As described by OP, after clicking the full-screen button, I can only get a video to actually go full-screen by leaving the app and returning to it. (I hit home then open it again from there.) However, if I hit back while it should be full-screen but isn't, it seems to completely break full-screen video till I actually exit and relaunch the app.

Affected: Yes
Device:   MiBox S
OS:       Android TV 9
TV Bro:   v1.8.6
WebView:  109.0.5814.85

Was also able to test with an Onn 4K TV Box, but not going to update it to 109, it's not mine..

Affected: No
Device:   Onn 4K TV Box
OS:       Android TV 10
TV Bro:   v1.8.6
WebView:  108.0.5359.128

[goncalo18s]

Removing updates from Webview and reinstalling TV Bro worked for me as well. Thanks!

i tried this and didn't work. full screens just doesnt load, only sound

[CNDVidel]

Uninstalling Android System Webview updates & uninstalling/re-installing TV Bro worked for me too on my Nvidia Shield. Thanks!

[MailYouLater]

@goncalo18s Can you check what version numbers TV Bro reports in the VERSION & UPDATES tab of its settings dialog?

For example, this screenshot shows TV Bro version 1.8.6 and WebView version 108.0.5359.128 (a version which is not affected by this bug):

[goncalo18s]

https://github.com/truefedex/tv-bro/issues/145

[Quikfix73]

My MiBox had an update to Android System WebView version 111.0.5563.58 today and I updated and tested it and the full screen is working again.

I did more testing and as of right now full screen works the first time and if you try it again on full screen it doesn't work but if I reload the streaming page in most cases I am able to get it to full screen again so it is not working perfectly as it did before but at least I can get full screen now.

[takeutiy]

Reinstalled TVbro to the version 1.8.6 and updated to Android System WebView version 111.0.5563.58. Full screen seems to work at once. But it can't enter to the full screen since I enter to the same page by reloading Or another case is it's impossible to restore to the embedded screen again by the back button.

You can try it. In this example, once it works. But after reloading the page, can't enter to the full screen. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/

My device is Chromecast with Google TV.

[mpaunovic]

It seems with the latest WebView version 113.x.x.x update the full screen issue has been fixed. Can anybody confirm this?

[truefedex]

@mpaunovic Yes, it looks like they finally fixed it.