Question

Is there a way to set the timeout value in WebView? I want the WebView to be time-outed if the url is too slow to response or if the site doesn’t load in 10 seconds.

I don’t know really where I should start 🙁

I have 2 classes, the first one is starter and the second one is for webView. Starter is a kind of thread and splash-screen for start and the next activity is the main webView, so I would like to add a checker if the site doesn’t response in 4 10 secs, it would give a error.

I hope any of you can help me,

Answer 1

Darpans code will not work, not at least because the parameter progress will not change during while, only by next call of. Try this instead:

private long starttime = 0;
public void onProgressChanged(WebView view, int progress) {
    Log.v(TAG, "progressChanged: " + progress);
    if(progress == 10) starttime = System.currentTimeMillis();

    long secondsSinceStart = (System.currentTimeMillis() - starttime) / 1000;

    if(progress < 100) {
        Log.v(TAG, "seconds since start: " + secondsSinceStart);
        if(secondsSinceStart > 5){
            view.stopLoading();
            Log.d(TAG, "TIMEOUT -> Stopped.");
        }
    } else {
        Log.v(TAG, progress + "% completed in: " + secondsSinceStart + " seconds");
    }
}

Unfortunately this will only work if the connection to the server will be established. If not the onProgressChanged get called only two times: at 10 and at 100 percents when then load is aborted.