Stuck on Minecraft logo

Hi, 

I recently downloaded mcpe on my xiaomi mi a1 from playstore and it didnt want to open. It was stuck in the minecraft logo forever. It used to work while i was in Android 8.0(before the 8.1 update), but now, no matter if it is stock 8.1 or any other  custom 8.1 rom it will always fail to open. I want these good minecraft days back so please fix this compability issue.