Does WebView.enableSlowWholeDocumentDraw live beyond the current activity?

Issue

I am using the method WebView.enableSlowWholeDocumentDraw() on one of my web views since I want to save its content to a file.

The problem is that I have other web views that I want them to use the optimisations that the new web view provides.

Does anyone know if this configuration is app-wide or if there is a way to disable slow whole document draw?

Thanks!

Solution

Yes, it does.

If you take a look at the source code you can see that WebView.enableSlowWholeDocumentDraw() implicitly calls the following:

getFactory().getStatics().enableSlowWholeDocumentDraw();

getFactory() returns the WebViewFactoryProvider instance which is providing all the WebViews for the current process.

You cannot disable it for a particular WebView.

Answered By - earthw0rmjim