Hi,
I've come across and issue where the frameStack is empty on some Android devices. I'm not sure if this an issue for nativescript-vue-navigator or nativescript-vue or neither and something else is in my code is causing this issue. But I'll explain anyway and hopefully it'll help others at least.

Starting here

When this.$navigate is called we go into its definition at https://github.com/nativescript-vue/nativescript-vue/blob/c0e6f959096e81dd544cee01f8be4cebfd89eb87/platform/nativescript/plugins/navigator-plugin.js#L69.

On line 77 (https://github.com/nativescript-vue/nativescript-vue/blob/c0e6f959096e81dd544cee01f8be4cebfd89eb87/platform/nativescript/plugins/navigator-plugin.js#L77), we call getFrameInstance. Then go to its definition at https://github.com/nativescript-vue/nativescript-vue/blob/c0e6f959096e81dd544cee01f8be4cebfd89eb87/platform/nativescript/plugins/navigator-plugin.js#L37.

On line 32 (https://github.com/nativescript-vue/nativescript-vue/blob/c0e6f959096e81dd544cee01f8be4cebfd89eb87/platform/nativescript/plugins/navigator-plugin.js#L32), when the result of require('@nativescript/core').Frame.getFrameById(frame) is undefined, causing undefined to be assigned to the frame variable.

The later call involving frame.id (https://github.com/nativescript-vue/nativescript-vue/blob/c0e6f959096e81dd544cee01f8be4cebfd89eb87/platform/nativescript/plugins/navigator-plugin.js#L37) throws an error Cannot read property 'id' of undefined and causes the navigation to never work.

Work around:

/// navigation.mixin.js
import { isAndroid } from '@nativescript/core';
import Vue, { navigateTo, NavigationEntryVue } from 'nativescript-vue';
import Component from 'vue-class-component';
@Component
export default class NavigationMixin extends Vue {
 public $navigator_navigate_override(
 route: string,
 options: NavigationEntryVue
 ): navigateTo {
 if (isAndroid) {
 // HACK: Android is broken on some devices
 options = {
 ...options,
 frame: {
 nativeView: {
 id: options.frame || 'navigator'
 }
 }
 };
 }
 return this.$navigator.navigate(route, {
 ...options
 });
 }
}

Which will get around frame.id being undefined when the navigator frame should always be defined when using the nativescript-vue-navigator plugin.

Possibly associated to:

• $navigateTo() frame ID issue #55
• When using $navigateTo I get "getFrameById() is deprecated. Use Frame.getFrameById() instead.'" nativescript-vue#591