WebView “flashing” with white background if hardware acceleration is enabled (Android 3.0+)

Question

I have an issue with the WebView (Android 3.0+), which the WebView always displays a white background before display my black background (\"flashing\"). Here is my simple te

Answer 1

I have enabled the hardware acceleration for the application and have disabled it for the activity. Additionally I set the background to null, as mentioned above. It works for me now.

Another approach (untested): set the layer type to software rendering and set the background to Color.TRANSPARENT (or 0): webview.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);

Greetz Thorsten