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

Late to party, but might help some. May sound silly as hell, but the mistake I made was not adding http:// in the beginning of the URL.

Answer 2

mWebView.setDownloadListener(new DownloadListener() {
  @Override
  public void onDownloadStart(String url, String userAgent, String contentDisposition, 
    String mimetype, long contentLength) {
    Log.d("download",url);
  }
});

Answer 3

I got the same error and Burhans solution was not helping me. I think things went wrong when you´re trying to load different urls too fast.

Edit: Found a better solution credits go to user2652394 WebView must be loaded twice to load correctly

You have to do something like this:

        webView.postDelayed(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                webView.loadUrl(landingpage);
            }
        }, 500);

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

I found a workaround by using onPageFinished method instead of shouldOverrideUrlLoading. It also provides the needed URL in the list of arguments.

The only trick is to set a check so that the main logic of the method (in my case making a Toast) is not triggered when onPageFinished gets called on the the page load itself.