title: Android WebView Cache manifest app not refreshing Javascript files
body: <p>I am working on a little android app that basically just loads a remote web app in a WebView. This app needs to cater for the device to be offline so the web app as been configured with a cache manifest file. This all works great on a PC (chrome).</p>
  
  <p>My problem is similar to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5870300/cache-manifest-offline-app-not-refreshing-javascript-files-in-chrome">Cache manifest offline app not refreshing javascript files in Chrome</a> , except mine only happens in the WebView on my android device. When I update my Web app and change the manifest file, all html files appear to re-cache correctly but the js files don't, even though they are included in the manifest file exactly the same.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried a number of ways to clear the android application/WebView cache manually (webview.clearCache()/deleting files in cache folder/etc.) but this hasn't helped. Disabling the WebView cache obviously gets the new file but when I re-enable it again I get the old cached files back.</p>
  
  <p>Maybe it is a time based hold on the .js files or something? I really don't know! Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.</p>