Kitkat kills: Not allowed to load local resource: file:///android_asset/webkit/android-weberror.png

Question

I have an app that uses WebViews. I\'ve changed my targetAPI from 18 to 19 and I\'m currently testing on the new 4.4. For some reason I\'m getting this error: Not allo

Answer 1

"Not allowed to load local resource" is a security origin error. The KitKat WebView has stronger security restrictions and it seems like these are kicking in. FWIW I tried just loading a file:///android_asset URL and it worked fine.

Did you call any of the file-related WebSettings APIs (like setAllowFileAccess(false)) by any chance? Are you trying to load the resource from an https: URL?