ionic-framework: bug: Platform.ready() never fires when using Crosswalk

Type: bug

Ionic Version: 2.x

Platform: android 4.1 webview

Having to support a specific API level, 16, Ionic 2 doesn’t render properly at all on that, so I installed Crosswalk (latest: 2.1.0) which got the app to render, howver, as a side effect, the platform.ready() never fires, take for example the default app code of:

initializeApp() { this.platform.ready().then(() => { // Okay, so the platform is ready and our plugins are available. // Here you can do any higher level native things you might need. StatusBar.hide(); //Splashscreen.hide(); }); }

When using Crosswalk, the StatusBar is never hidden, this happens during live reload debugging and when the app is packaged & installed on the device. When running in live reload, the console reports that the device ready is not firing.

My installed plugins are:

cordova-plugin-console 1.0.4 "Console"                                                                                                                                                                        
cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview 2.1.0 "Crosswalk WebView Engine"                                                                                                                                             
cordova-plugin-device 1.1.3 "Device"                                                                                                                                                                          
cordova-plugin-splashscreen 4.0.0 "Splashscreen"                                                                                                                                                              
cordova-plugin-statusbar 2.2.0 "StatusBar"                                                                                                                                                                    
cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.3.0 "Whitelist"                                                                                                                                                                    
cordova-sqlite-storage 1.4.8 "Cordova sqlite storage plugin"                                                                                                                                                  
ionic-plugin-keyboard 2.2.1 "Keyboard"                               

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Cordova version is: 6.4.0 Ionic version is: 2.1.4

Could you suggest a method of either fixing this or an alternate method of backwards supporting Android 4.1.1?

Regards,

Joe