bug: Apple Auth on Android: A headful operation is already in progress. Please wait for that to finish.

[chrisspiegl]

Plugin(s)

• Authentication

Version

7.3.1

Platform(s)

• Android

Current behavior

When using Apple Auth on Android, I get the error message:

A headful operation is already in progress. Please wait for that to finish.

When triggering the sign-in via a button. The sign-in then does not start / function.

Expected behavior

Apple Auth to work on Android.

Reproduction

I am willing to create one, but it is quite involved to set it all up completely. So, if you already have a repo with Apple Auth and can test on Android. That'd be great.

Steps to reproduce

1. Set up Capacitor and Android
2. Install: @capacitor-firebase/authentication firebase
3. const result = await FirebaseAuthentication.signInWithApple({ skipNativeAuth: true })
4. When triggered, the error shows in the console when running the code inside Capacitor on Android.
5. A headful operation is already in progress. Please wait for that to finish.

Other information

I tried researching the issue and found two mentions of the error message on:

• Flutterfire: [firebase_auth]: A headful operation is already in progress. Please wait for that to finish. firebase/flutterfire#17697
• Firebase Android SDK: [firebase_auth]: A headful operation is already in progress. Please wait for that to finish. firebase/firebase-android-sdk#7300

They suggested that a fix would be to “remove” android:taskAffinity="" from the AndroidManifest.xml though that is not set in my AndroidManifest.xml at all.

I thought it might be something related to the Firebase Android SDK. But they seem to think it's down stream.

Which is the reason I am reporting it here.

Capacitor doctor

Latest Dependencies:

@capacitor/cli: 7.4.3
@capacitor/core: 7.4.3
@capacitor/android: 7.4.3
@capacitor/ios: 7.4.3

Installed Dependencies:

@capacitor/cli: 7.4.3
@capacitor/android: 7.4.3
@capacitor/core: 7.4.3
@capacitor/ios: 7.4.3

[success] iOS looking great! 👌
[success] Android looking great! 👌

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[robingenz]

Thanks for reporting that. I don't have time to look into it right now, but PRs are welcome if anyone finds a solution.