The Webxdc AppStore flashes blinding white for 1 second

User Testing
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When in a dark environment and you’re on dark mode, this is really jarring, it makes users angry, and it feels very cheap / brittle.

If the device is on dark mode, if it must “flash” at all, have it be a black screen before it loads.

Not sure why it needs to flash at all though. Just cache the site, no?

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Haven’t checked, but adding such a line to the <head> might fix it <meta name='color-scheme' content='light dark'>.

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To the head of what though? The app itself or the webxdc App Store page?

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Maybe I misunderstood your request, but I thought you were talking about the website. (In that case, platform-specific tags such as android, ios, desktop, linux, etc. would be redundant and unwanted)

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It’s the webxdc appstore loader in the native iOS app that flashes white before it loads the appstore.

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I added this in my appstore and the issue still exists: Apps

So it must be a problem on the Delta Chat side.

@r10s @WofWca this might be noticed more and more as people opt for custom webxdc app URLs.

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Probably it’s what the WebView shows by default until it has loaded the <head>.

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This has to be done in the delta chat clients, right?

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I don’t think the “Android” tag is relevant for this topic. I can’t see the problem you described with the Android app.

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do you have a custom webxdc appstore in your app? or just the default one?

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The default one. When the webxdc app store loads it is black not white. There are some other issues with the UI/UX of the webxdc app store which can be improved (like indicating download and more natural navigation of store), but the issue with flashing white at least does not seem to be a problem on Android.

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I’m talking about an issue with a custom one.