Android 4.0.1 breaks WebView HTML 5 local storage?
Via some discussion with a Google engineer it seems that they've made the decision that the file:// scheme is insecure.
A work around for this is to do the following
browser.loadDataWithBaseURL("http://www.example.com", htmlContent, "text/html", "utf-8", null);
For android versions less than 4.4, loading data into a webview with a file scheme as a directory:
browser.loadDataWithBaseUrl("file:///android_asset/", html, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);wont work with localStorage. If I add a filename it does work on older OS versions
browser.loadDataWithBaseUrl("file:///android_asset/test.html", html, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);