Access denied using local storage in Android WebView

Question

I've got an Android webview, that I believe has everything required to access and use localStorage, however, I'm seeing an "Access denied" error in the console when trying to use local storage. Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document.

Can anyone spot a problem?

JavaScript Code:

function localStorageTest() {
  // Check browser support
  if (typeof(Storage) != "undefined") {
    // Store
    localStorage.setItem("lastname", "Smith");
    // Retrieve
    document.getElementById("console").innerHTML = localStorage.getItem("lastname");
  } else {
    document.getElementById("console").innerHTML = "Sorry, your browser does not support Web Storage...";
  }
}

Here's the Android code:

    // Enable javascript
    WebSettings settings = getSettings();
    settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    settings.setDomStorageEnabled(true);
    settings.setDatabaseEnabled(true);

    // Create database folder
    String databasePath = getContext().getDir("databases", Context.MODE_PRIVATE).getPath();
    getSettings().setDatabasePath(databasePath);

    getContext().getPackageName() + "/databases/");

    settings.setAppCacheEnabled(true);
    settings.setSaveFormData(true);;
    settings.setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
    settings.setSaveFormData(true);

Answer 1

Access to localStorage is only allowed on pages from certain "Web-safe" schemes, like http:, https: and file:. It doesn't work for about: and data: schemes for example, or for any custom scheme you might be using. Chrome behaves the same way, you can check on desktop.