WebView Cache Data Directory?

Question

In my code I have a custom cache directory set to the sdCard and I point the 'WebView.getSettings().setAppCachePath("")' to this path but the OS sends the cache to the default cache (/data/data/com.your.package.appname/cache). The custom directory is being created correctly where it should be, but the data doesn't get into it. The reason I am using a custom directory is the cache's will be large and temporary so I need the user to be able to delete specific caches.

Am I missing something here? Any help, code, or suggestions will be appreciated as always.

Thank-you.

public class DocumentView extends Activity {
 /**
 * -- Called when the activity is first created.
 * ================================================
 **/
@Override
public void onCreate(final Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

String l = getIntent().getStringExtra("LABEL");
    CreateCacheDirectory();

     /**
     * -- Set up the WebView
     * ========================================================
     **/

    final String url = getIntent().getStringExtra("url");// get url that
                                                        // passed from
                                                       // previous
                                                      // Activity
    mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);

    mWebView.getSettings().setDomStorageEnabled(true);

    // Set cache size to 8 mb by default. should be more than enough
    mWebView.getSettings().setAppCacheMaxSize(1024 * 1024 * 8);

    // The DEFAULT location for the cache
    mWebView.getSettings().setAppCachePath(extStorageDirectory
            + "/myCompany/myApp/cache/" + l);
    mWebView.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);
    mWebView.getSettings().setAppCacheEnabled(true);
    mWebView.getSettings().setCacheMode(WebSettings.LOAD_CACHE_ELSE_NETWORK);

    mWebView.loadUrl(url);

    mWebView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {
        public void onProgressChanged(WebView view, int progress) {
            activity.setProgress(progress * 100);
            pd.show();

            if (progress == 100)
                pd.dismiss();
        }

        @Override
        public void onReachedMaxAppCacheSize(long spaceNeeded,
                long totalUsedQuota, WebStorage.QuotaUpdater quotaUpdater) {
            quotaUpdater.updateQuota(spaceNeeded * 2);
        }

    });

    mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
        @Override
        public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode,
                String description, String failingUrl) {
            // The redirect
            if (url.equals(failingUrl)) {
                // error.html is the place we are redirected to by the
                // server if we are online
                mWebView.loadUrl("http:www.aero-technologies.us/error.html");
                return;
            } else if (url.equals(failingUrl)) { // The cache failed – We
                                                // don't have an offline
                                               // version to show
                // This code removes the ugly android's "can't open page"
                // and simply shows a dialog stating we have no network
                view.loadData("", "text/html", "UTF-8");
                // TODO -->showDialog(DIALOG_NONETWORK);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            view.loadUrl(url);
            return true;
        }
    });

public void CreateCacheDirectory() {
    if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals(
            android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) {

        String l = getIntent().getStringExtra("LABEL");

        extStorageDirectory = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
                .toString();

        File cacheDirectory = new File(extStorageDirectory
                + "/myCompany/myApp/cache/" + l);// Create a Folder object
                                                           // for the parent
                                                          // directory
        cacheDirectory.mkdirs();// Have the object build the folder
                               // if needed.

    } else if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals(
            android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED_READ_ONLY)) {

        Alerts.sdCardMissing(this);
    }

}

Answer 1

From what I could tell by reading the WebSettings code, the cache configuration on WebSettings is only for HTML5 apps:

http://www.grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.google.android/android/2.3.3_r1/android/webkit/WebSettings.java#181

Answer 2

This is Chromium bug 245549 which was fixed in end-November 2014 so probably affects all versions of Android below 6.0 (API 23).