Prevent WebView from displaying "web page not available"

Question

I have an app that makes extensive use of a WebView. When the user of this app does not have Internet connection, a page saying "web page not available" and various other text appears. Is there a way to not show this generic text in my WebView? I would like to provide my own error handling.

private final Activity activity = this;  private class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient  public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {   // I need to do something like this:   activity.webView.wipeOutThePage();   activity.myCustomErrorHandling();   Toast.makeText(activity, description, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();  } } 

I found out WebView->clearView doesn't actually clear the view.

Answer 1

First create your own error page in HTML and put it in your assets folder, Let's call it myerrorpage.html Then with onReceivedError:

mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {     public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {         mWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/myerrorpage.html");      } });