Android Webview: Cannot call determinedVisibility() - never saw a connection for the pid

Question

I have a Android Webview and when I click on a link to download a file (image of pdf etc) I got a error message.

Error message:
Cannot call determinedVisibil         


        

Answer 1

Background

Here is the source code of the method in the browser engine that gives the error (BindingManagerImpl.java), from Chromium source:

@Override
public void determinedVisibility(int pid) {
    ManagedConnection managedConnection;
    synchronized (mManagedConnections) {
        managedConnection = mManagedConnections.get(pid);
    }
    if (managedConnection == null) {
        Log.w(TAG, "Cannot call determinedVisibility() - never saw a connection for the pid: "
                + "%d", pid);
        return;
    }

Analysis

It's a rendering warning from content.

Consecutive calls to loadUrl cause a race condition. The problem is that loadUrl("file://..") doesn't complete immediately, and so when you call loadUrl("javascript:..") it will sometimes execute before the page has loaded.

Detail

For more detail see this stackoverflow answer.