Crashes on Android 2.3 when you use redirectTo

[nickretallack]

View this page in Android Browser on Gingerbread (2.3):
http://nickretallack.com/experiments/angular-redirect.html

You can get a debug console on android by typing about:debug in your address bar. The output you will get is thus:

angular-1.0.0rc6.js:7185
Uncaught Error: 10 $digest() iterations reached.
Aborting!
Watchers fired in the last 5 iterations: [["fn:$locationWatch; newVal: 6; oldVal: 5"],["fn:$locationWatch; newVal: 7; oldVal: 6"],["fn:$locationWatch; newVal: 8; oldVal: 7"],["fn:$locationWatch; newVal: 9; oldVal: 8"],["fn:$locationWatch; newVal: 10; oldVal: 9"]]

Discussion thread is here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/angular/FUPnNj7CwhY

[nickretallack]

Btw, this causes an angular app to totally fail. Routing becomes nonfunctional until you refresh the page.

[IgorMinar]

chrome mobile seems to freeze as well

[nickretallack]

May be related to this bug #920

[IgorMinar]

I can't reproduce this any more. Can you?

[IgorMinar]

So it turns out that android < 4 claims to have html5 history api support but the implementation is buggy.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17471
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/angular/FUPnNj7CwhY