The crash occurs on Samsung Galaxy J6+, S7, S8+ and Note9. Android 8 and 9.
implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0-rc01'
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:18.1.0'
Stack trace
Fatal Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Illegal meta data value: the child service doesn't exist
at nF0.a(nF0.java:3)
at nF0.a(nF0.java:8)
at org.chromium.content.browser.ChildProcessLauncherHelperImpl.a(ChildProcessLauncherHelperImpl.java:37)
at mq2.run(mq2.java:5)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:789)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:98)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:65)
According to the issue tracker of Chromium, it was marked as "fixed":
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40242054
A workaround which I think isn't needed anymore:
<queries>
<package android:name="com.google.android.webview" />
<package android:name="com.google.android.webview.beta" />
<package android:name="com.google.android.webview.dev" />
<package android:name="com.google.android.webview.canary" />
<package android:name="com.google.android.webview.debug" />
<package android:name="com.android.webview" />
</queries>