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

I found that I had this problem on KitKat when I used webview.loadData(). If I instead used webview.loadDataWithBaseURL() (I used "file:///android_asset/" as the baseURL), then the problem went away.

The methods setAllowFileAccess(), setAllowFileAccessFromFileURLs(), and setAllowUniversalAccessFromFileURLs() did not have any affect that I could see.