My experience is that loading websites in a WebView is much slower than performing the same actions in the Android Web Browser. I can see that all files have been loaded in my Apache log, it will take a few seconds until the page is displayed in the WebView control, however. Opening the same page in the native Web browser will result in an immediate display. It seems that rendering is somehow crippled.
Which browser settings do we have to apply in order to achieve the same performance as loading the page in the native web browser?
Our current settings:
browserset.setLoadsImagesAutomatically(true);
browserset.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
browserset.setDatabaseEnabled(true);
browserset.setDatabasePath("data/data/com.xxx/databases");
browserset.setDomStorageEnabled(true);
browserset.setRenderPriority(WebSettings.RenderPriority.HIGH);
browserset.setSupportZoom(false);
browserset.setUserAgentString( browserset.getUserAgentString() + " (XY ClientApp)" );
browserset.setAllowFileAccess(true);
browserset.setSavePassword(false);
browserset.setSupportMultipleWindows(false);
browserset.setAppCacheEnabled(true);
browserset.setAppCachePath("");
browserset.setAppCacheMaxSize(5*1024*1024);