Hardware acceleration causes Android app to crash, when turned off the app displays distorted images

I'm building an app using the Ionic framework. I have the following attribute set in the AndroidManifest.xml to turn on hardware acceleration:

<application android:hardwareAccelerated="true" android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
...
</application>

The app launches fine but when I scroll the content, a feed of pictures for example, the app quits. When I set android:hardwareAccelerated to "false", the app doesn't quit BUT the images look distorted/pixelated.

I'm targeting sdkVersion 19. I can't find a solution to make the images look not distorted/pixelated or to prevent the app from quitting.

Any solutions?