WebView loadUrl works only once

Question

EDIT: I worked on this project years ago and unfortunately I cannot verify if any of the answers is working in the given scenario.

I am having hard time with one WebView which should show our blog. When initilized, it works just fine. The user can navigate to different links within the WebView. To get back to the blog, there is a button outside the WebView which should load the main blog site again.

The problem is, that nothing is loaded after the second call to loadUrl. Here is my code:

private WebView wv;

        @Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

            this.setContentView(R.layout.blog);

    wv = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.blog_webview);
    wv.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    wv.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {

        @Override
        public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon {
            MyLog.logDump("onPageStarted: " + url);
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
                            MyLog.logDump("onPageFinished: " + url);
        }
    });

    wv.loadUrl(Constants.BLOG_URL);
}

The function called by my OnClickListener is the following:

    public void reLoadUrl() {
        wv.loadUrl(Constants.BLOG_URL);

}

But despite that the logs in onPageFinished and onPageStarted show that my wv.loadUrl is being invoked and that it's loading the correct url, the content in the webview itself doesn't change. I've tried clearing the cache, the history, the view, tried different WebSettings, tried to use webView.goBack() - not result. Also those ideas don't work: Strange webview goBack issue in android

Sometimes, the reLoadUrl shows the desired result - but once it fails it no longer can be made to work again. Any ideas what could be happening? I did try to read the WebView code but I couldn't find anything that could help me.

The only thing that I can add, is that we are using some ad networks which are heavily dependent on webViews - I tried to turn those down, but I didn't remove the libraries so I am not sure that they are not the culprit.

Any ideas??

Answer 1

I have spent the last day or so working on an application that utilised a WebView. I did have a few issues with loading data into the WebView.

I am not entirely sure this would work but perhaps replace this code:

public void reLoadUrl() {
    wv.loadUrl(Constants.BLOG_URL);

}

with this code:

public void reLoadUrl() {

    wv.clearView();
    wv.loadUrl(Constants.BLOG_URL);

}

maybe when you clear the WebView it will solve the issue

Answer 2

I was facing the same problem and finally able to manage to solve this.I am new to android not sure this good or bad but it works for me.I simply clear catch from web view and destroy and re-create before reloading another url .

mWebView.clearCache(true);
// destroy before reload new url
parentView.removeView(mWebView);
mWebView.clearHistory();    
mWebView.destroy();

Though mWebView.destroy(); generate an error "java.lang.Throwable: Error: WebView.destroy() called while still attached!" and i search it but does not get any solution and many say it does not affect application till now(I still does not know solve this N.B: I use WebChromeClient ) .