Several Android apps including Gmail are crashing, Google says working on a fix

Google has acknowledged the issue and said that a fix for this problem is in progress.

Several users were left puzzled when their Android phone suddenly started throwing incessant notifications saying that apps have crashed. The notifications, when tapped, did not open apps giving troubles to users. And these inaccessible apps included important ones such as Google Pay, Gmail, Google Chrome among others. Google took note of this issue almost instantly and found the culprit. The Android WebView app was what caused some apps on Android to crash. In a statement, a Google spokesperson said, “We're aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users. The affected users are unable to access Gmail. We will provide an update, detailing when we expect to resolve the problem.” Google also advised the affected users to use the web versions of important services, such as Gmail. "Affected users can use the desktop Gmail Web interface instead of the Gmail Android app," it said. Right after these apps began crashing on Android phones, people took to DownDetector and Reddit to see the intensity of this issue. No wonder, a large number of Android users were complaining of their Android apps going kaput for no reason. Google's Workspace Cloud Status Dashboard also did confirm the outage that several Android apps were facing. And the culprit was Android's WebView app. But there is no solution as of now. Google, however, did say that it is working on a fix for this issue as soon as possible.