Capacitor: Android 'tabs' starter: Capacitor: Unable to read file at path public/plugins

[appde]

Description of the problem:
The starter works fine under the Chrome browser, but crashes or shows a white screen on some Android devices.

logcat:
Capacitor: Unable to read file at path public/plugins
Capacitor/Plugin/Browser: Error binding to custom tabs service

Affected platform

• [x] Android
• [ ] iOS
• [ ] electron
• [ ] web

OS of the development machine

• [x] Windows
• [ ] macOS
• [ ] linux

Other information:
Tested on Android Emulator and real devices - API 21, 22, 25

Capacitor version:
"@capacitor/android" = 1.1.1
"@capacitor/core" = 1.1.1
"@capacitor/cli" = 1.1.1

node version:
v12.3.1

npm version:
6.4.1

CocoaPods version:
-

Steps to reproduce:

ionic start itest tabs
ionic build
ionic capacitor sync android

Link to sample project:

https://github.com/appde/itest

[jcesarmobile]

None of those should crash the app.
In which devices is it failing?

[appde]

Just tested Genymotion 7.1 (API 25) and 5.0 (API 21) - 5.0 shows the white screen forever, 7.1 crashes.
And both of them seemed to have the same logcat messages.

[jcesarmobile]

The white screen on genymotion is probably related to not having the system webview up to date.

[MatHuf]

Experiencing the same issue using the tabs starter with Android API 24 and earlier. API 25 and up works as expected.

[JCGeorge1]

i have same issue,How can it be solved

[2manoj1]

same issue E/Capacitor: Unable to read file at path public/plugins

[WolfieXIII]

I had this issue E/Capacitor: Unable to read file at path public/plugins above, webDir in capacitor.config.json was set to src instead of www.

After fixing that, rebuilding the android studio project I could deploy again without error.

[kilroy05]

What are you using @WolfieXIII
My build has no www folder, it's build (default project)

[arnaud-zad]

@jcesarmobile It's not only about crashing or not. If you don't have cordova plugins, is it correct to have an error in logs ?

[kavitha306]

• This problem occurs if we are using blank application as well
• This is due to no plugin in the application
• Added one plugin the problem fixed

npm install com-darryncampbell-cordova-plugin-intent
npm install @ionic-native/web-intent
ionic cap sync