I have an app that uses webview and utilizes cache. But I need to clear that cache every X minutes even if the app isn't runnung. How would I do that?
I've enabled cache like this:
myWebView.getSettings().setCacheMode(WebSettings.LOAD_CACHE_ELSE_NETWORK);
myWebView.getSettings().setAppCacheEnabled(true);
I use this statement to delete cache with a help of a button:
myWebView.clearCache(true);
The edited code snippet above posted by Gaunt Face contains an error in that if a directory fails to delete because one of its files cannot be deleted, the code will keep retrying in an infinite loop. I rewrote it to be truly recursive, and added a numDays parameter so you can control how old the files must be that are pruned:
//helper method for clearCache() , recursive
//returns number of deleted files
static int clearCacheFolder(final File dir, final int numDays) {
int deletedFiles = 0;
if (dir!= null && dir.isDirectory()) {
try {
for (File child:dir.listFiles()) {
//first delete subdirectories recursively
if (child.isDirectory()) {
deletedFiles += clearCacheFolder(child, numDays);
}
//then delete the files and subdirectories in this dir
//only empty directories can be deleted, so subdirs have been done first
if (child.lastModified() < new Date().getTime() - numDays * DateUtils.DAY_IN_MILLIS) {
if (child.delete()) {
deletedFiles++;
}
}
}
}
catch(Exception e) {
Log.e(TAG, String.format("Failed to clean the cache, error %s", e.getMessage()));
}
}
return deletedFiles;
}
/*
* Delete the files older than numDays days from the application cache
* 0 means all files.
*/
public static void clearCache(final Context context, final int numDays) {
Log.i(TAG, String.format("Starting cache prune, deleting files older than %d days", numDays));
int numDeletedFiles = clearCacheFolder(context.getCacheDir(), numDays);
Log.i(TAG, String.format("Cache pruning completed, %d files deleted", numDeletedFiles));
}
public static void deleteDirectoryTree(File fileOrDirectory) {
if (fileOrDirectory.isDirectory()) {
for (File child : fileOrDirectory.listFiles()) {
deleteDirectoryTree(child);
}
}
fileOrDirectory.delete();
}
deleteDirectoryTree(this.getCacheDir());
You can setup a timer in the Activity and after a specified timeout, call the deleteDirectoryTree
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