How do I stop Flash after leaving a WebView?

Question

I have an app that I\'ve put together to stream flash video in a webview when a user clicks a button.

It does this fine, but after backing out or losing focus, it lo

Answer 1

Calling webvew.destroy() in onDestroy() worked for me.

Answer 2

The webViwe destory approach did not work for me - it worked well on the first close of the webview, but subsequent calls to the webview caused a crash.

I ended up doing this:

_webView.loadData("", "text/html", "utf-8");

from my activity finish() method.

Answer 3

If you are as lucky as I am, even this won't be enough to end a youtube streaming! The sound is still playing no matter what!

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();

    // Stopping a webview and all of the background processes (flash,
    // javascript, etc) is a very big mess.
    // The following steps are to counter most of the issues seen on
    // internals still going on after the webview is destroyed.

    mWebView.stopLoading();
    mWebView.loadData("", "text/html", "utf-8");
    mWebView.reload();

    mWebView.setWebChromeClient(null);
    mWebView.setWebViewClient(null);

    RelativeLayout layout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.webviewRelativeLayout);
    layout.removeView(mWebView);
    mWebView.removeAllViews();
    mWebView.clearHistory();
    mWebView.destroy();
    mWebView = null;
}

Answer 4

I combined some of the answers here, and this worked for me:

@Override
protected void onDestroy()
{
    super.onDestroy();

    webView.stopLoading();
    webView.loadData("", "text/html", "utf-8");
    webView.destroy();
}

Answer 5

This approach works me. I call it on back button press.

webview.stopLoading(); 
webview.loadUrl("");
webview.reload();
webview = null;

Answer 6

I'm a bit confused by the question, but I think you're saying that flash video keeps on playing even after the activity is closed. I ran into a similar issue. The following worked for me:

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();
    final WebView webview = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webPlayer);
    // Calling .clearView does not stop the flash player must load new data
    webview.loadData("", "text/html", "utf-8");
}

I posted this same solution here: android WebView stop Flash plugin onPause