Description

While creating a new Site Page, selecting one of the available templates to enter Preview mode and then rotating the device causes the Block Editor to be displayed again and without any content which consequently causes a crash to occur when the user types anything in the Block Editor.
This issue was only seen to occur on Android.

Reproduction Rate

4/4 100%

Expected behavior

The Preview window should remain displayed when the device is rotated.

Actual behavior

The application crashes.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Install WordPress 14.5
2. Log in to a valid account.
3. Press the “Add new” button.
4. Press the “Site Page” button.
5. Select any of the 5 available Templates.
6. Rotate the device.
7. Type anything in the default paragraph block.

Tested on the following

Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8.0" (7.0)

Please see the attached video and crashlog for more information

AndroidTemplateCrashes.zip
AndroidTemplateCrashLog.txt

Submitted by:

Luis Pimenta