Prevent timeouts in phonegap on android emulator
First way to avoid a timeout on application start up is to increase the TimeoutValue before the index.html is loaded.
super.setIntegerProperty("loadUrlTimeoutValue", 70000);
super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html");But sometimes it doesn't work (or just in my case). A alternate way is to create a new html file called helper.html or something else.
<!-- helper.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<script>
window.location='./index.html';
</script>
<body>
</body>
</html>After the file is loaded we say that our new window.location is our normal index.html.
Just change the line in your MainActivity class
super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html");to
super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/helper.html");and your app is not running into a timeout on the emulator.
Written by Stefan Höfler
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Hello,
This is the case where the index.html file times out. I have an issue where I am trying to embed a youtube url inside a popup in my app. When internet is not present or it is slow enough, it gives an alert saying : "Couldn't load url: http://www.youtube.com/embed/...." . When I click on the OK button, the app crashes.
I tried increasing the super.setIntegerProperty("loadUrlTimeoutValue",60000) value inside Phonegapactivity.java file, but it doesn't seem affecting the youtube url as it crashes before the timeout.
Any pointers on this would be greatly appreciated.Thanks.
The video is embed? Via inAppBrowser Plugin?
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