Android Webview - Completely Clear the Cache

I found an even elegant and simple solution to clearing cache

WebView obj;
obj.clearCache(true);

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#clearCache%28boolean%29

I have been trying to figure out the way to clear the cache, but all we could do from the above mentioned methods was remove the local files, but it never clean the RAM.

The API clearCache, frees up the RAM used by the webview and hence mandates that the webpage be loaded again.

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));
}

Hopefully of use to other people :)

I found the fix you were looking for:

context.deleteDatabase("webview.db");
context.deleteDatabase("webviewCache.db");

For some reason Android makes a bad cache of the url which it keeps returning by accident instead of the new data you need. Sure, you could just delete the entries from the DB but in my case I am only trying to access one URL so blowing away the whole DB is easier.

And don't worry, these DBs are just associated with your app so you aren't clearing the cache of the whole phone.

To clear all the webview caches while you signOUT form your APP:

CookieSyncManager.createInstance(this);         
CookieManager cookieManager = CookieManager.getInstance();        
cookieManager.removeAllCookie();

For Lollipop and above:

CookieSyncManager.createInstance(this);         
CookieManager cookieManager = CookieManager.getInstance();        
cookieManager.removeAllCookies(ValueCallback);

To clear cookie and cache from Webview,

    // Clear all the Application Cache, Web SQL Database and the HTML5 Web Storage
    WebStorage.getInstance().deleteAllData();

    // Clear all the cookies
    CookieManager.getInstance().removeAllCookies(null);
    CookieManager.getInstance().flush();

    webView.clearCache(true);
    webView.clearFormData();
    webView.clearHistory();
    webView.clearSslPreferences();

The only solution that works for me

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP_MR1) {
    CookieManager.getInstance().removeAllCookies(null);
    CookieManager.getInstance().flush();
} 

This should clear your applications cache which should be where your webview cache is

File dir = getActivity().getCacheDir();

if (dir != null && dir.isDirectory()) {
    try {
        File[] children = dir.listFiles();
        if (children.length > 0) {
            for (int i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
                File[] temp = children[i].listFiles();
                for (int x = 0; x < temp.length; x++) {
                    temp[x].delete();
                }
            }
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("Cache", "failed cache clean");
    }
}

webView.clearCache(true)
appFormWebView.clearFormData()
appFormWebView.clearHistory()
appFormWebView.clearSslPreferences()
CookieManager.getInstance().removeAllCookies(null)
CookieManager.getInstance().flush()
WebStorage.getInstance().deleteAllData()

Simply using below code in Kotlin works for me

WebView(applicationContext).clearCache(true)

CookieSyncManager.createInstance(this);         
CookieManager cookieManager = CookieManager.getInstance();        
cookieManager.removeAllCookie();

CookieSyncManager.createInstance(this);    
CookieManager cookieManager = CookieManager.getInstance(); 
cookieManager.removeAllCookie();

It can clear google account in my webview

To clear the history, simply do:

this.appView.clearHistory();

Source: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html

Make sure you use below method for the form data not be displayed as autopop when clicked on input fields.

getSettings().setSaveFormData(false);

context.deleteDatabase("webview.db");
context.deleteDatabase("webviewCache.db")

Did the trick

to completely clear the cache in kotlin you can use:

context.cacheDir.deleteRecursively()

Just in case someone needs the kotlin code (: