I have an application on appspot that works fine through regular browser, however when used through Android WebView, it cannot set and read cookies. I am not trying to get cookies "outside" this web application BTW, once the URL is visited by WebView, all processing, ids, etc. can stay there, all I need is session management inside that application. First screen also loads fine, so I know WebView + server interactivity is not broken.
I looked at WebSettings class, there was no call like setEnableCookies.
I load url like this:
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
WebView webview = new WebView(this);
setContentView(webview);
webview.loadUrl([MY URL]);
}
..
}
Any ideas?
If you are using Android Lollipop i.e. SDK 21, then:
CookieManager.getInstance().setAcceptCookie(true);
won't work. You need to use:
CookieManager.getInstance().setAcceptThirdPartyCookies(webView, true);
I ran into same issue and the above line worked as a charm.
From the Android documentation:
The
CookieSyncManager
is used to synchronize the browser cookie store between RAM and permanent storage. To get the best performance, browser cookies are saved in RAM. A separate thread saves the cookies between, driven by a timer.To use the
CookieSyncManager
, the host application has to call the following when the application starts:CookieSyncManager.createInstance(context)
To set up for sync, the host application has to call
CookieSyncManager.getInstance().startSync()
in Activity.onResume(), and call
CookieSyncManager.getInstance().stopSync()
in Activity.onPause().
To get instant sync instead of waiting for the timer to trigger, the host can call
CookieSyncManager.getInstance().sync()
The sync interval is 5 minutes, so you will want to force syncs manually anyway, for instance in onPageFinished(WebView, String). Note that even sync() happens asynchronously, so don't do it just as your activity is shutting down.
Finally something like this should work:
// use cookies to remember a logged in status
CookieSyncManager.createInstance(this);
CookieSyncManager.getInstance().startSync();
WebView webview = new WebView(this);
webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
setContentView(webview);
webview.loadUrl([MY URL]);
My problem is cookies are not working "within" the same session. –
Burak: I had the same problem. Enabling cookies fixed the issue.
CookieManager.getInstance().setAcceptCookie(true);
CookieManager.getInstance().setAcceptCookie(true);
Normally it should work if your webview is already initialized
or try this:
CookieSyncManager.createInstance(this);
CookieManager cookieManager = CookieManager.getInstance();
cookieManager.removeAllCookie();
cookieManager.setAcceptCookie(true);
Source: Stackoverflow.com