Webview shows error “Didn't find class ”android.webkit.RenderProcessGoneDetail"

Question

My tablet Android version is 7.0 and Chrome version 62.0.3202.84.

When first run my webview app, debug window show

Didn\'t find class \"andro

Answer 1

You can try WebSettings#setSafeBrowsingEnabled(false) in api level 26. It works for me

Refs: WebSettings#setSafeBrowsingEnabled

Answer 2

There is a problem with Android after 7.0, but I managed to find a solution. For me it worked to follow this tutorial. In a summary the fragment should look like this:

public class WebFragment1 extends Fragment{
    public WebFragment1() {
        // Required empty public constructor
    }

    WebView wvPage1;
    String url = "http://apptimist.studio";
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                             Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_web_fragment1, container, false);
        wvPage1 = (WebView)v.findViewById(R.id.wvPage1);
        wvPage1.loadUrl(url);
        WebSettings settings = wvPage1.getSettings();
        settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        wvPage1.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());
        return v;
    }

    private class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient{
        @Override
        public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
        }

        @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            final Uri uri = Uri.parse(url);
            return true;
        }

        @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.N)
        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request) {
            view.loadUrl(request.getUrl().toString());
            return true;
        }
    }

I tried without those two lines, but it was not working, so I included them and it worked. Pay attention to add them

WebSettings settings = wvPage1.getSettings();
settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

There is the notification that there might be a vulnerability to XSS attacks, you should be opening trusted websites preferably.

And here is the layout:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.kosalgeek.webviewfragment.WebFragment1">

    <WebView
        android:id="@+id/wvPage1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"></WebView>

</LinearLayout>

Hope that this will help someone as I spent a lot of time looking for the solution

Answer 3

It appears to be a bug, more details here: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/android-webview-dev/m0EtO3IXNn0

On N+ new ART logging appears to have been introduced letting app developers know about certain binary compatibility problems in their code. Unfortunately, this is triggering for some of the API-level guarded code in WebView.

One example is "Failed resolution of: Landroid/webkit/RenderProcessGoneDetail;", which is triggered whenever a recent version of WebView with O features is used on an N device. This is harmless, but confusing and spammy to developers looking at logcat.

Answer 4

I had the same log message but the worst part is that it was opening chrome to load the page. That was a problem since when the back button was pressed, the user was brought back to the activity with a blank page.

So what I did, is I just set the WebViewClient on the webView:

webview.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());

Now the error log is gone and the page is loading in the webview.

Hope this helps anyone!