Android - Making Webview DomStorage persistant after app closed

android webview local-storage persistent
jimroot25 picture jimroot25 · Nov 11, 2010 · Viewed 18.9k times · Source

I'm facing a huge problem developing an Android app which use a Webview to display datas. The website i'm using in the webview use localStorage API of HTML 5.

To enable this feature i've set the webview setting like this :

webview.getSettings().setDomStorageEnabled(true);
webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

So the localStorage API works but when I close the app (and kill the process), localStorage is completly erased and when I reload it, all my datas are lost.

My question is simple : How to make DomStorage of a Webview persistant even when we close the app ?

Thank you for all you future answers.

Answer

Panthro picture Panthro · Mar 29, 2011

Did you set the DatabasePath? Android doesn't know where to save the DOMDatabase by default, if you don't set it calling

webview.getSettings().setDatabasePath()

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