How to enable cookies in android webview?

Question

how do i enable cookies in a webview?

i tried to use

CookieManager.getInstance().setAcceptCookie(true);

just before calling WebView.loadUrl() and it doesnt work as i get a html page error from a website saying cookies need to be enabled.

What i dont understand is how does cookieManager know which webview to enable cookies?

say if i had a activity with two webviews in the screen and i only wanted one of those webviews to enable cookies, how is that possible using a CookieManager?

i feel like i am missing something? i could not find a method like webView.setCookieManager or Cookiemanager.setWebView(webview)

Thanks

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17230757/how-to-enable-cookies-in-android-webview

Answer 1

CookieManager.getInstance() is the CookieManager instance for your entire application. Hence, you enable or disable cookies for all the webviews in your application.

Normally it should work if your webview is already initialized: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/CookieManager.html#getInstance()

Maybe you call CookieManager.getInstance().setAcceptCookie(true); before you initialize your webview and this is the problem?