Viewpager Webview memory issue

Question

I\'m using a viewpager to load around 50 webviews... All the webviews are loaded into assests and each weview has an HTML page that is accessing around 70 images each... As

Answer 1

The WebView works with the JNI and this can only hold 512 local references, try loading your content directly from web and the problem shouldn't occur.

I get this problem when I override shouldInterceptRequest(WebView view, String url) in webviewclient and hand local references from my own caching mechanism.

This might be a bug in the webview itself. At least it isn't how it should behave if you ask me.