Android app navigation freezes until app is backgrounded/resumed

Hi Median Support,

I’m experiencing a reproducible Android rendering/navigation issue with my app, Life, Handled.

Device tested:
Google Pixel 7 Pro
Android 16
Physical device

ISSUE:

When using the installed Median Android APK, tapping an internal page often does not visibly navigate or render the requested page.

A clear example is tapping Daily Health Log from the app’s Home screen.

The app appears to stay on the current screen and does not respond normally.

If I then partially background/minimize the app and immediately reopen it, the requested page appears.

Earlier builds sometimes displayed a completely white screen. The current build does not always turn white, but the same underlying problem remains: the requested page does not render properly until the app is backgrounded and resumed.

This is repeatable.

IMPORTANT COMPARISON:

On the exact same Pixel phone, I tested the same web application in both regular Chrome and Chrome Incognito.

The same pages open immediately there.

Because the website works normally on the same device outside the Median APK, the problem appears to be specific to the Median Android wrapper/WebView rather than the underlying web application.

TROUBLESHOOTING ALREADY COMPLETED:

• Completely uninstalled the previous app
• Cleared browser/app cache and history
• Restarted the phone
• Rebuilt the Median app
• Installed a fresh APK after the clean uninstall
• Confirmed the Median Website URL uses app.lifehandled.org
• Confirmed native bottom navigation uses full app.lifehandled.org URLs
• Confirmed Link Handling: “All pages on my domain” = Internal
• Confirmed Web Overrides contain no custom CSS
• Confirmed Web Overrides contain no custom JavaScript
• Confirmed there are no custom headers
• OneSignal is enabled
• Separate Firebase Cloud Messaging plugin is disabled
• Disabled Native Page Transitions
• Enabled Maximum Windows with a limit of 5
• Auto Close remains disabled
• Rebuilt and retested after these changes
• The issue still occurs

The web application uses client-side/SPA-style navigation.

Could you please review whether this may be related to:

Android WebView rendering or repaint behavior
SPA/client-side navigation compatibility
App background/resume behavior
WebView configuration
Whether GeckoView or another supported renderer/configuration would be appropriate
Any Median-side project setting that could be causing this behavior

I am very close to app-store submission and would greatly appreciate help identifying and correcting this issue.

I am happy to provide a privacy-safe screen recording showing:
tap page → no visible response → background app → reopen → requested page appears.

For privacy reasons, I am not posting any user names, email addresses, login credentials, household information, health information, API keys, notification credentials, or other sensitive app data on this public support page.

Thank you very much for your help.

Megan
Life, Handled.