Android API 23. WebView how to ignore javascript errors

Question

Im using WebView to embed a third party website into an app.

mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.activity_main_webview);
WebSettings webSettings = mWebView.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
mWebView.loadUrl("http://someurl.com/");

The problem is WebView freezes as it finds javascript errors:

I/chromium﹕ [INFO:CONSOLE(7178)] "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'getItem' of null"

but somehow in the browser (Android), it loads perfectly.

Bruce Lan · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-11 18:59:04Z

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Try to use setDomStorageEnabled(true)

WebSettings settings = webView.getSettings();

settings.setDomStorageEnabled(true);

answered Sep 11, 2015 at 18:59

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Bruce Lan Over a year ago

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4930623/webview-causing-uncaught-typeerror-when-loading-www-google-com

magorich Over a year ago

Thanks a lot I din't know what was causing my webview to not load and this helped me

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