PhoneGap 3.1 Splashscreen on Android (4.2, 4.3): CordovaWebView: TIMEOUT ERROR-Collection of common programming errors

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I am facing this issue since I have updated from PhoneGap 3.0.0 to 3.1.0.

11-08 15:30:54.997: E/CordovaWebView(32728): CordovaWebView: TIMEOUT ERROR!

The Code

I have the following code in my main Java:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    // Splash screen
    super.setIntegerProperty("splashscreen", R.drawable.splash);

    super.loadUrl(Config.getStartUrl(), 10000);

    mContext = getApplicationContext();
    appView.addJavascriptInterface(new JSInterface(), "JSPlugin");
}

Relevant part of Config.xml:

Index.html (onDeviceReady runs fine, but hide() doesn’t make any difference):

document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
function onDeviceReady() {
    navigator.splashscreen.hide();
}

What happens is the following:

The app loads and the splashscreen displays but it doesn’t hide. So after a while I get the CordovaWebView: TIMEOUT ERROR! and the app crashes.
On the screen I get an error:

Application Error
The connection to the server was unsuccessful.
(javascript:JSPlugin.myFunction('...');)

It crashes on both Android 4.2 and Android 4.3 but it runs fine on iOS 6 and iOS 7.

What I have tried is:

  • Cordova update npm install -g cordova
  • Platform update: cordova platform update android
  • Removing and adding Splashscreen plugin again cordova plugin remove org.apache.cordova.splashscreen and cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.splashscreen. Also tried the same with phonegap phonegap local plugin...

  • After plugin re-install: cordova build android

  • I tried to remove this line super.setIntegerProperty("splashscreen", R.drawable.splash); from the main .java because i have the Config.xml preference . Still crashes.

  • Removing Splashscreen: if I completely remove the splashscreen preference from Config.xml the app loads but obviously without the splashscreen.

  • I have tried this as well: phonegap 3.1 – Unable to hide splash screen on device ready