Cached HTML after using Cordova to Cpacitor Migration

[marcelkipp]

We migrated our app from Cordova to Capacitor. In order to transfer/migrate the IndexedDB values in our app we have the following setting in our capacitor.config

server: { iosScheme: 'ionic', androidScheme: 'http' }

Regarding accessing the IndexedDB no issues on both iOS and Android. BUT Android is facing a strange behaviour. After updating from App V1 (Cordova) to App V2 (Capacitor) the HTML is still the old one from V1, therefore assets are not being found and the HTML is not the one of V2.

My general guess is that Android is caching the HTML of V1. Once you make a fresh install of V2 the new HTML is there. Also removing the app-data in the settings does the trick (but than all data is lost). We already tried to clear the cache using this plugin capacitor-plugin-webview-cache.
Also trying to refresh the browser on startup with window.location.href = window.location.href + '?cache_bust=' + new Date().getTime(); did not make any changes.

Is there some setting or native code for android that needs to be inplemented in order to force the App the use V2 HTML?

[marcelkipp]

Also tried to add some native code to clear the cache of the webview, which did not have any effect.

public class MainActivity extends BridgeActivity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        this.getBridge().getWebView().clearCache(true);
    }

}