WebViewCoreThread used by admob AdView is using high CPU even when parent Activity is paused [duplicate]

Answer 1

Not sure if anybody still needs this information, but I have been searching for a solution to this myself. Apparently AdMob is still flawed.

The only problem is, this will stop all WebViews from running in the background. Only a problem if your app depends on this to operate.

Add to onPause() :

new WebView(this).pauseTimers();

and to onResume() :

new WebView(this).resumeTimers();

This came from a Google Employee who claims that they are looking into it: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-admob-ads-sdk/Qu4G19NFAuI/wcNkoV0AeDUJ