Selecting text and clicking "Web Search" crashes the app

Question

I am trying to reuse a webview across activity. Here's a sample of what I'm doing.

There are two activities, Main and Secondary.

In onResume() of Main i create a webview object, and I save it in my application context.

    WebView wv = new WebView(getApplicationContext());
    wv.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    wv.getSettings().setCacheMode(WebSettings.LOAD_DEFAULT);
    wv.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {

        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
            Log.e("test", "onPageFinished");
            ((WebViewReuseApplication) getApplicationContext()).setCachedWebView(view);
        }
    });
    wv.loadUrl("http://www.someurl.com/path/to/somewhere");

Then on press of a button in Main, I take him to Activity Secondary. Here I get the already loaded webview from my Application object and attach it to a ViewGroup.

In onCreate() of Secondary -

    WebView cachedWebView = ((WebViewReuseApplication) getApplicationContext()).getCachedWebView();

    ((LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.webview_holder)).addView(cachedWebView, new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));

I am doing all this because WebViews are very slow in Android and I really want it to be preloaded when it comes to Secondary Activity.

While this works perfectly well, here's a problem. When it is in Secondary Activity, if I long press on a particular text to select, and click on Web Search, my app crashes. Is there any way to get around this? I really want this preloading thing and I for the same reason I cannot initialize WebView with activity context.

UPDATE -

Here's the logcat output i get -

10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359): android.util.AndroidRuntimeException: Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity  context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at android.app.ContextImpl.startActivity(ContextImpl.java:922)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at android.content.ContextWrapper.startActivity(ContextWrapper.java:283)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at android.webkit.SelectActionModeCallback.onActionItemClicked(SelectActionModeCallback.java:139)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView$ActionModeCallbackWrapper.onActionItemClicked(PhoneWindow.java:2651)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at com.android.internal.app.ActionBarImpl$ActionModeImpl.onMenuItemSelected(ActionBarImpl.java:757)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.dispatchMenuItemSelected(MenuBuilder.java:735)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuItemImpl.invoke(MenuItemImpl.java:149)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuBuilder.performItemAction(MenuBuilder.java:874)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuPopupHelper.onItemClick(MenuPopupHelper.java:156)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at android.widget.AdapterView.performItemClick(AdapterView.java:292)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at android.widget.AbsListView.performItemClick(AbsListView.java:1182)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at android.widget.AbsListView$PerformClick.run(AbsListView.java:2710)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at android.widget.AbsListView$1.run(AbsListView.java:3465)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:605)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4511)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:986)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:753)
10-11 18:41:09.318: E/AndroidRuntime(3359):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

I think you need to add the below mentioned flag to your Intent where you call the WebView's Activity,

intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);

or at least this is what the logcat error report suggests,

Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity  context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. 

So I believe this is how you should do it for lower android versions.

If the above solution doesn't work, then replace all your applcationContext with your Activity context like this,

Instead of,

 WebView wv = new WebView(getApplicationContext());

try

WebView wv = new WebView(activity.this);

Not only here, but in all the places where you could have used getApplicationContext()