I know this is an older post, but were you ever able to find a solution to this issue? I'm currently deploying Explorer on a few android tablets, and have this same issue when enabling locates. I was able to find a workaround by publishing our explorer map to AGOL and enabling searching of layers there, but this is extremely time consuming, and creates problems with automating new map creation. Searching works fine on Iphone and Ipad, but crashes on our android tablets. Thanks.
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