Solving Android Crosswalk WebView black flashing with Cordova

Sections of our GroupAhead apps are pure native, and others are hybrid. When switching between these screens, there was an irritating black flash appearing after upgrading from Crosswalk 14 to Crosswalk 21.

It was happening in the Crosswalk WebView when setting:

as well as

After debugging in Android Studio, it appears that there’s a confg.xml parameter that solved this issue for us:

It sounds like others have had this issue when showing Google Maps.

Good to see that cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview has a preference to control this setting.