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

The solution below works for me.

webview.loadDataWithBaseURL( baseUrl, htmlStr, "text/html", "UTF-8", "");

where baseUrl is your external domain, not file:///android_asset/ (i.e. http://a.domain.com ).