Question

I’m working with PhoneGap and Android and have my .html and js files on an external server. When I use the following code, the app loads my external .html files and everything works fine:

this.setIntegerProperty("loadUrlTimeoutValue", 60000);
this.loadUrl("http://www.myserver.com");

However, when work via a WebView I can’t seem to set the loadURLTimeoutValue for a WebView:

private WebView webView;
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);  

try {
     webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);    
     webView.setScrollBarStyle(View.SCROLLBARS_INSIDE_OVERLAY);
     webView.loadUrl("http://www.myserver.com");     
}

This doesn’t work. How can I set the timeout value on the WebView?

Answer 1

This is a workaround to simulate the described behavior. You can use a WebViewClient, and override the onPageStarted method:

public class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
    boolean timeout;

    public MyWebViewClient() {
        timeout = true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
        new Thread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                timeout = true;

                try {
                    Thread.sleep(1000);
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                if(timeout) {
                    // do what you want
                }
            }
        }).start();
    }

    @Override
    public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
        timeout = false;
    }
}

If timeout, you can load, for example, an error page…

To add the WebViewClient to you WebView, just do this:

webView.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());