Why CordovaWebViewClient not working in Cordova 6 anymore

Question

I have written custom webviewclient class to override onPageStarted, onPageFinished etc in cordova 3.7 which was working fine.

In following code is I ha

Answer 1

It was replaced by SystemWebViewClient

You should do something like this:

SystemWebView wv = (SystemWebView)appView.getView();
wv.setWebViewClient(new SystemWebViewClient((SystemWebViewEngine)appView.getEngine()){
    @Override
    public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
        super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
        Log.i("CSP Log", "onPageStarted: " + url);
    }

    @Override
    public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
        super.onPageFinished(view, url);
        Log.i("CSP Log", "onPageFinished: " + url);
    }

    @Override
    public void doUpdateVisitedHistory(WebView view, String url, boolean isReload){
        super.doUpdateVisitedHistory(view, url, isReload);
    }

    @Override
    public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {
        super.onReceivedError(view, errorCode, description, failingUrl);
    }
});

Answer 2

Apache cordova removed CordovaWebViewClient inorder to support external webviews like Crosswalk. If you check out the 14 changed files link in the following commit link, you could see CordovaWebViewClient is removed and AndroidWebViewClient is added.

So i guess you cannot use the same old code work in Cordova 6.0

You can probably try using org.apache.cordova.engine.SystemWebViewClient instead.

Infact, the same question is answered here and it was also accepted. So i believe this is the possible solution to the issue. Hope it helps.

Answer 3

Cordova 4 removed the CordovaWebViewClient : look here

You may use WebViewClient instead of CordovaWebViewClient (The cordova-plugin-inappbrowser plugin use that for override onPageStarted event).

public class CustomCordovaWebViewClient extends WebViewClient