Android Webview set proxy programmatically Kitkat

Issue

How can we set proxy in Android webview programmatically on latest Kitkat release?

This SO link WebView android proxy talks about version upto SDK version 18. But those solution no more works with Kitkat as underlying webkit implementation is changed and it uses chromium now.

Solution

Here is my solution:

public static void setKitKatWebViewProxy(Context appContext, String host, int port) {
    System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", host);
    System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", port + "");
    System.setProperty("https.proxyHost", host);
    System.setProperty("https.proxyPort", port + "");
    try {
        Class applictionCls = Class.forName("android.app.Application");
        Field loadedApkField = applictionCls.getDeclaredField("mLoadedApk");
        loadedApkField.setAccessible(true);
        Object loadedApk = loadedApkField.get(appContext);
        Class loadedApkCls = Class.forName("android.app.LoadedApk");
        Field receiversField = loadedApkCls.getDeclaredField("mReceivers");
        receiversField.setAccessible(true);
        ArrayMap receivers = (ArrayMap) receiversField.get(loadedApk);
        for (Object receiverMap : receivers.values()) {
            for (Object rec : ((ArrayMap) receiverMap).keySet()) {
                Class clazz = rec.getClass();
                if (clazz.getName().contains("ProxyChangeListener")) {
                    Method onReceiveMethod = clazz.getDeclaredMethod("onReceive", Context.class, Intent.class);
                    Intent intent = new Intent(Proxy.PROXY_CHANGE_ACTION);

                    /*********** optional, may be need in future *************/
                    final String CLASS_NAME = "android.net.ProxyProperties";
                    Class cls = Class.forName(CLASS_NAME);
                    Constructor constructor = cls.getConstructor(String.class, Integer.TYPE, String.class);
                    constructor.setAccessible(true);
                    Object proxyProperties = constructor.newInstance(host, port, null);
                    intent.putExtra("proxy", (Parcelable) proxyProperties);
                    /*********** optional, may be need in future *************/

                    onReceiveMethod.invoke(rec, appContext, intent);
                }
            }
        }
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (InstantiationException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

I hope it can help you.

Note: The Context parameter should be an Application context as the parameter name showed, you could use your own implemented Application instance which extend Application.

Answered By - xjy2061