[SR] Opening Android Web Browser Custom Tabs stops replay and does not resume

[krystofwoldrich]

Description

Opening https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/custom-tabs using expo-web-browser stops replay and shows App In Background breadcrumbs, but after closing the in-app browser the replay does not resume.

Using https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/releases/tag/7.12.0-alpha.4 and https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-react-native/pull/3930/commits/e9c611678d832d3d30ba674caf70ccd58cec8ab0

This example is from my build of https://github.com/krystofwoldrich/bluesky-social-app/pull/1

https://sentry-sdks.sentry.io/replays/b29f68e9b2c24e2880f2fd40f0fe3735

[romtsn]

Maybe we could have a public API like doNotEndWithSession or something that keeps the replay running. There will be a gap in the replay, but it's still the same one after returning back to the app from another process

[antonis]

This might also relate to https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-react-native/issues/4954 were Browser Custom Tabs are used.

[romtsn]

So I tested this and it is indeed the case, because custom tabs launches in a separate process which we have no control over and cannot record it:

So if a user spends more than 30s in the custom tab we'll end the session and the replay. But this is expected behavior and the moment and we'd need to think of how to better address this. I think this can be addressed both by #2934 and #4794. But as for this issue we can close it in favour of those two, as this is intended behavior.