[Bug]: All plugins are "not implemented on android" after upgrading to Capacitor 6

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Capacitor Version

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Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 6.0.0
  @capacitor/core: 6.0.0
  @capacitor/android: 6.0.0
  @capacitor/ios: 6.0.0

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 6.0.0
  @capacitor/core: 6.0.0
  @capacitor/android: 6.0.0
  @capacitor/ios: 6.0.0

[error] Xcode is not installed
[success] Android looking great! 👌

Other API Details

$ npm --version
10.6.0
$ node --version
v20.12.0

I think it affects every plugin, but confirmed the error occurs with:

"@capacitor/clipboard": "^6.0.0",
"@capacitor/geolocation": "^6.0.0",
"@capacitor/share": "^6.0.0",
"@capacitor/splash-screen": "^6.0.0",

Platforms Affected

• iOS
• Android
• Web

Current Behavior

Using any plugin triggers "[plugin name] plugin is not implemented on android"

Expected Behavior

No errors like in Capacitor 5

Project Reproduction

https://github.com/ionic-team/create-capacitor-app

Additional Information

I tried:

• npx cap migrate
• npx cap sync android
• Deleted android folder, then npx cap add android
• Deleted node_modules, then yarn
• Restarted Android Studio, clean project, reload from disk, rebuild, etc
• Created a new clean project using @capacitor/create-app

If I use my old Android build with Capacitor 5 plugins, but load a webview containing the JS for Capacitor 6 plugins, every plugin still works. Plugins all work on iOS.

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[Venryx]

I hit this same issue, where several plugins (including the capacitor-provided "App" plugin) were "not implemented on android". (despite them clearly existing, and my seeing their initializations in the android logs)

Base situation: My app's "public" folder merely held "stub" index.html and index.js files, which would immediately redirect to my web-hosted domain at page load time.

Fix: Rather than use those "stub" files with redirection, instead I just provided my web-hosted domain as the server.url field on capacitor.config.json.

Diagnosis: I think what happened is that somewhere in the updates from Capacitor 4 to 6, the plugin-injection system was optimized to complete earlier in the page loading process. So the redirect that my "stub" index.js file wants to do, used to complete before the page redirect, whereas on Capacitor 6 it completes after the plugins were already injected, causing the newly loaded page to then lose access to those injected plugins. (EDIT: See threads below for the actual reason. It has to do with the plugin-injection code not being permitted on domains other than the start (stub/localhost) domain, unless you add this patch.)

Anyway, my redirect approach is a bit non-standard, so maybe it's not the reason for the issue you're hitting. But I figured I would mention it, since there aren't many google hits for this error message.

EDIT: Oh, I see the issue above (#7467) describes this. And following that chain, there is a also fix/workaround for it here.