Destroy Android WebView on handler disconnect

[AdamEssenmacher]

Description of Change

Updates the Android WebViewHandler disconnect path to fully tear down the native Android.Webkit.WebView when the handler is disconnected.

The handler now stops loading, removes the WebView from its parent if attached, removes child views, runs the base disconnect logic, and then calls Destroy() on the native WebView. This prevents detached Android WebView/Chromium instances from remaining alive after navigation/page pop scenarios.

Adds an Android device test that verifies disconnecting the handler calls Destroy() and removes the platform view from its parent before destruction.

Issues Fixed

Fixes #18021

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[kubaflo]

/review -b feature/regression-check

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🤖 Automated review — alternative fix proposed

The expert-reviewer evaluation compared the PR fix against #3 automatically generated candidates and selected try-fix-3 as the strongest fix.

Why: PR fix as submitted empirically fails the gate test (DestroyCalled stays false) because SetWebViewClient(null!) / SetWebChromeClient(null) violate AndroidX @nonnull contract and break Mono.Android's JNI managed-to-Java peer identity, causing the virtual Destroy() call to bypass the managed override. try-fix-3 removes those two lines and substitutes the canonical Chromium/AOSP teardown sequence (StopLoading -> LoadUrl about:blank -> ClearHistory -> OnPause -> detach parent -> RemoveAllViews -> Destroy), passing all three gate assertions analytically while keeping the smallest single-file surface (pr-plus-reviewer is functionally identical; try-fix-1 fails assertion B; try-fix-2 also passes but touches a second file).

Please consider applying the candidate diff below (or use it as guidance). Once you push an update, this workflow will re-trigger and re-evaluate.

Candidate diff (`try-fix-3`)

diff --git a/src/Core/src/Handlers/WebView/WebViewHandler.Android.cs b/src/Core/src/Handlers/WebView/WebViewHandler.Android.cs
--- a/src/Core/src/Handlers/WebView/WebViewHandler.Android.cs
+++ b/src/Core/src/Handlers/WebView/WebViewHandler.Android.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Net;
+using Android.Views;
 using Android.Webkit;
 using static Android.Views.ViewGroup;
 using AWebView = Android.Webkit.WebView;
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@
 
 		protected override void DisconnectHandler(AWebView platformView)
 		{
+			// Detach our managed client wrappers from this handler (managed-only).
 			if (OperatingSystem.IsAndroidVersionAtLeast(26))
 			{
 				if (platformView.WebViewClient is MauiWebViewClient webViewClient)
@@ -63,12 +65,28 @@
 					webChromeClient.Disconnect();
 			}
 
-			platformView.SetWebViewClient(null!);
-			platformView.SetWebChromeClient(null);
+			// NOTE: Do NOT call SetWebViewClient(null!) / SetWebChromeClient(null) here.
+			// The WebViewClient parameter is @NonNull on AndroidX; passing null can
+			// trigger framework-side client substitution that breaks the JNI
+			// managed-to-Java peer identity, which causes subsequent virtual calls
+			// (including Destroy()) to bypass managed overrides. See dotnet/maui#18021.
 
+			// Canonical Chromium/AOSP WebView teardown sequence.
 			platformView.StopLoading();
+			platformView.LoadUrl("about:blank");
+			platformView.ClearHistory();
+			platformView.OnPause();
+
+			// Detach from parent BEFORE Destroy() so any subclass observing
+			// Parent inside Destroy() sees null.
+			if (platformView.Parent is ViewGroup parent)
+				parent.RemoveView(platformView);
+			platformView.RemoveAllViews();
 
 			base.DisconnectHandler(platformView);
+
+			// Release the native renderer last.
+			platformView.Destroy();
 		}
 
 		public static void MapSource(IWebViewHandler handler, IWebView webView)
diff --git a/src/Core/tests/DeviceTests/Handlers/WebView/WebViewHandlerTests.Android.cs b/src/Core/tests/DeviceTests/Handlers/WebView/WebViewHandlerTests.Android.cs
--- a/src/Core/tests/DeviceTests/Handlers/WebView/WebViewHandlerTests.Android.cs
+++ b/src/Core/tests/DeviceTests/Handlers/WebView/WebViewHandlerTests.Android.cs
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 using System;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Android.Content;
+using Android.Views;
 using Android.Webkit;
+using Android.Widget;
 using Microsoft.Maui.DeviceTests.Stubs;
+using Microsoft.Maui.Platform;
 using Xunit;
 using AWebView = Android.Webkit.WebView;
 
@@ -15,5 +19,62 @@
 
 		string GetNativeSource(WebViewHandler webViewHandler) =>
 			GetNativeWebView(webViewHandler).Url;
+
+		[Fact(DisplayName = "DisconnectHandler Destroys Native WebView")]
+		public async Task DisconnectHandlerDestroysNativeWebView()
+		{
+			var originalFactory = WebViewHandler.PlatformViewFactory;
+
+			try
+			{
+				await InvokeOnMainThreadAsync(() =>
+				{
+					DestroyTrackingMauiWebView platformView = null;
+
+					WebViewHandler.PlatformViewFactory = handler =>
+					{
+						platformView = new DestroyTrackingMauiWebView((WebViewHandler)handler, handler.MauiContext!.Context!);
+						return platformView;
+					};
+
+					var webView = new WebViewStub();
+					var handler = CreateHandler(webView);
+					var parent = new FrameLayout(handler.MauiContext!.Context!);
+					parent.AddView(handler.PlatformView);
+
+					Assert.Same(parent, handler.PlatformView.Parent);
+
+					((IElementHandler)handler).DisconnectHandler();
+
+					var destroyTrackingWebView = platformView ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Expected the WebView factory to create a platform view.");
+					Assert.True(destroyTrackingWebView.DestroyCalled);
+					Assert.Null(destroyTrackingWebView.ParentWhenDestroyed);
+					Assert.Equal(0, parent.ChildCount);
+				});
+			}
+			finally
+			{
+				WebViewHandler.PlatformViewFactory = originalFactory;
+			}
+		}
+
+		class DestroyTrackingMauiWebView : MauiWebView
+		{
+			public DestroyTrackingMauiWebView(WebViewHandler handler, Context context)
+				: base(handler, context)
+			{
+			}
+
+			public bool DestroyCalled { get; private set; }
+
+			public IViewParent ParentWhenDestroyed { get; private set; }
+
+			public override void Destroy()
+			{
+				DestroyCalled = true;
+				ParentWhenDestroyed = Parent;
+				base.Destroy();
+			}
+		}
 	}
 }
\ No newline at end of file

[AdamEssenmacher]

Follow-up pushed in 0f248baf6f.

Changes made:

• Removed the platformView.SetWebViewClient(null!) call from the Android WebViewHandler.DisconnectHandler path. This avoids passing null to Android's non-null setWebViewClient API.
• Left the rest of the teardown behavior intact: disconnect the MAUI clients, clear the WebChromeClient, stop loading, remove the WebView from its parent, remove child views, run base disconnect, then call Destroy().

Validation:

• Built Core.DeviceTests for net10.0-android successfully.
• Ran the Android Core WebView category via direct instrumentation on a Pixel API 36 device.
• DisconnectHandler Destroys Native WebView passed, so the PR's destroy/detach validation still succeeds without clearing the WebViewClient.
• The WebView category result was 74 run / 70 passed / 1 failed / 3 skipped; the single failure was the existing ReturnsNonEmptyNativeBoundingBox(size: 1) tolerance check (expected 1, actual 1.3333), unrelated to this WebView disconnect change.

[kubaflo]

/review -b feature/regression-check -p android

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📊 Review Session — 0f248ba · Avoid clearing Android WebViewClient on disconnect · 2026-05-21 13:03 UTC

🚦 Gate — Test Before & After Fix

Gate Result: ✅ PASSED

Platform: ANDROID · Base: main · Merge base: 1eb20831

Test	Without Fix (expect FAIL)	With Fix (expect PASS)
📱 WebViewHandlerTests (DisconnectHandlerDestroysNativeWebView) Category=WebView	✅ FAIL — 997s	✅ PASS — 349s

🔴 Without fix — 📱 WebViewHandlerTests (DisconnectHandlerDestroysNativeWebView): FAIL ✅ · 997s

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🟢 With fix — 📱 WebViewHandlerTests (DisconnectHandlerDestroysNativeWebView): PASS ✅ · 349s

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📁 Fix files reverted (1 files)

• src/Core/src/Handlers/WebView/WebViewHandler.Android.cs

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🧪 UI Tests — ViewBaseTests

Detected UI test categories: ViewBaseTests

🧪 UI Test Execution Results

⏭️ SKIPPED — 0 passed, 0 failed, 1 skipped (platform: android)

Category	Result	Tests	Duration	Notes
ViewBaseTests	⏭️ SKIPPED	—	1.6s	Runner threw an exception

Failures here are informational only — they do not block the gate or affect try-fix candidate scoring.

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🔍 Pre-Flight — Context & Validation

Issue: #18021 — Right way to dispose page with WebView (Android WebView memory leak)
PR: #35552 — Destroy Android WebView on handler disconnect
Platforms Affected: Android
Files Changed: 1 implementation (WebViewHandler.Android.cs), 1 test (WebViewHandlerTests.Android.cs)

Problem Summary

On Android, after navigating away from a page containing a WebView, the underlying Android.Webkit.WebView / Chromium instance stays alive (visible in edge://inspect/#devices). MAUI's WebViewHandler.DisconnectHandler previously cleared a couple of clients and stopped loading but never invoked WebView.Destroy() nor detached the native view from its parent. The Android WebView.Destroy() contract requires the view to be removed from any view hierarchy first; otherwise some chromium resources are retained.

PR's Current Fix (Candidate #0)

In WebViewHandler.Android.cs DisconnectHandler:

1. Disconnect MAUI WebViewClient/WebChromeClient (existing).
2. SetWebChromeClient(null) (kept). SetWebViewClient(null!) was removed in a follow-up commit because Android's setWebViewClient is non-null.
3. StopLoading().
4. If platformView.Parent is ViewGroup parent → parent.RemoveView(platformView).
5. platformView.RemoveAllViews() (clear children).
6. base.DisconnectHandler(platformView).
7. platformView.Destroy().

The added device test DisconnectHandlerDestroysNativeWebView swaps WebViewHandler.PlatformViewFactory with a DestroyTrackingMauiWebView subclass, parents the platform view under a FrameLayout, calls IElementHandler.DisconnectHandler(), and asserts:

• Destroy() was invoked.
• The view's Parent is null at the time Destroy() ran (detached first).
• The FrameLayout's child count is 0.

Key Findings

• Aligns with Android documented contract: Destroy() must be called after the view is removed from the view system (https://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView#destroy()).
• Order is correct: detach → run base disconnect (which clears handler ↔ view links) → Destroy().
• Threading: Android WebView is single-threaded UI; DisconnectHandler is called on UI thread by the framework, so no extra dispatch is needed.
• SetWebChromeClient(null) is fine — that API accepts null per Android docs (unlike setWebViewClient which expects non-null).
• The PR does not call PauseTimers(), ClearHistory(), ClearCache(true), or LoadUrl("about:blank"). None of these are required by the destroy contract; however they are sometimes suggested in community guidance to be defensive against pending JS timers.
• The PR removes the WebView from its parent inside the handler. Today, the MAUI handler/element disconnect flow does not otherwise detach the platform view from arbitrary ViewGroups (the native control is removed by its hosting MAUI element), so this manual removal is safe and necessary on Android.

Code Review Summary

Verdict: LGTM with possible follow-up
Confidence: medium-high
Errors: 0 | Warnings: 0 | Suggestions: 2

Notes:

• 💡 Could additionally guard Destroy() against being called twice if the handler is somehow disconnected twice; WebView.Destroy() is not idempotent and a second call can throw.
• 💡 Consider also calling LoadUrl("about:blank") and PauseTimers() for extra safety against JS timers, though not strictly required for memory release per the Android docs.

Gate Result

✅ PASSED (see gate/content.md) — without-fix the new device test FAILS; with-fix it PASSES.

Fix Candidates

#	Source	Approach	Test Result	Files Changed	Notes
0	PR #35552	Detach from parent → base disconnect → Destroy() in handler	✅ Gate PASS	WebViewHandler.Android.cs (+ test)	Baseline

Alternative candidates are generated in Phase 2 with deliberately different mechanics (Override OnDetachedFromWindow in MauiWebView, IDisposable/finalizer pattern, lifecycle-driven teardown, etc.).

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🔧 Fix — Analysis & Comparison

Try-Fix Aggregate — PR #35552 Alternative Fix Candidates

Issue: #18021 — Android WebView/Chromium instances leak after navigating away from a page hosting a WebView
PR: #35552 — Destroy Android WebView on handler disconnect
Platform tested: android (build verification only — see "Test methodology" below)

Methodology

For each candidate the agent:

1. Used the maui-expert-reviewer sub-agent (Claude Opus, 1 M context) to propose a meaningfully different approach to the same problem, with full diff and risk analysis.
2. Applied the diff on top of the PR branch (pr-review-35552, head ac49557f9e, branched off main 1eb20831e6).
3. Built the Android target framework (net10.0-android36.0) of src/Core/src/Core.csproj and confirmed 0 warnings / 0 errors.
4. Analyzed the device test's assertion surface (DisconnectHandlerDestroysNativeWebView) against the candidate's behavior to predict pass/fail.
5. Reverted the diff before applying the next candidate.

Test methodology note: Full Helix/device-test runs against an Android emulator/device take ≈ 1000 s per run. With three candidates that would consume the entire interactive budget without producing new information beyond the gate (which already validated the PR baseline). Build-clean + lifecycle-sequence reasoning is used here as proxy evidence; any candidate selected for promotion to a PR should still be device-tested before merge.

Candidates (ranked best → worst)

#	Approach	Files Touched	Build	Predicted Test	Verdict vs PR
0 (PR)	Detach → base disconnect → Destroy in handler	1 + 1 test	✅	✅ (gate confirmed)	Baseline
1	Self-destructing MauiWebView via OnDetachedFromWindow + flag	2 + PublicAPI	✅	✅	Strongest — better encapsulation, idempotent
2	Defensive teardown (about:blank, ClearHistory, PauseTimers, listener nulling, try-catch)	1	✅	✅	Strongest leak coverage; global PauseTimers side effect
3	_destroyed idempotent guard + no-op WebViewClient/WebChromeClient swap	1	✅	✅	Smallest delta; fixes double-destroy crash

Stop condition reached

After three meaningfully different candidates spanning encapsulation (1), Chromium quiescing (2), and idempotent guarding (3), further variations would be trivial recombinations. The expert reviewer's lower-ranked ideas — "activity lifecycle observer" and "post-to-UI-loop deferred destroy" — were explicitly skipped: the first is too invasive (couples MAUI Core to androidx.lifecycle for a leak fix), and the second is racy against the synchronous gate test.

Recommendation

Merge PR #35552 as-is. It correctly addresses the reported leak in #18021 and the gate validates the new device test catches the regression.

Open a follow-up PR adopting Candidate 1 (self-destructing MauiWebView). It strictly improves the PR baseline by:

• Pushing the "Detach before Destroy" Android-doc invariant into the place where Android's own lifecycle callback enforces it (defends against future refactors of DisconnectHandler).
• Making the teardown idempotent (fixes a latent double-destroy crash documented by Android).
• Encapsulating leak-safe teardown inside MauiWebView so non-MAUI consumers (Compatibility renderers, custom hosting) benefit automatically.

If the team prefers a smaller delta, Candidate 3 is a drop-in hardening that fixes the double-destroy crash and late-callback hazard without touching MauiWebView.

Candidate 2 addresses concerns slightly outside the scope of the original issue (JS-timer / JS-bridge retention on older Chromium); pursue only if there's evidence the in-the-wild leak persists after the PR baseline ships.

Artifacts

• try-fix-1/content.md — full description + diff for Candidate 1
• try-fix-2/content.md — full description + diff for Candidate 2
• try-fix-3/content.md — full description + diff for Candidate 3
• candidate-1.diff, candidate-2.diff, candidate-3.diff — raw git diff output saved alongside (149/46/59 lines respectively)

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📋 Report — Final Recommendation

Comparative Report — PR #35552 candidates

Issue: #18021 — Android WebView/Chromium instances leak after navigating away from a page hosting a WebView.
PR: #35552 — Destroy Android WebView on handler disconnect.
Gate: ✅ PASSED for the PR baseline (test FAILs without fix, PASSes with fix).

Candidate inventory

Candidate	Source	Approach	Build	Gate / Predicted Test
pr	PR #35552 head	Detach → base disconnect → Destroy(); removed bogus SetWebViewClient(null!); gated Disconnect() on API ≥ 26 (legacy)	✅	✅ Gate PASS (confirmed)
pr-plus-reviewer	PR + expert review polish	PR baseline + Disconnect() always runs + StopLoading() before SetWebChromeClient(null) + drop RemoveAllViews() + try/catch around Destroy() + clarifying comments	✅	✅ Predicted PASS (sequence-preserving)
try-fix-1	Expert reviewer (STEP 6a)	Self-destructing MauiWebView via OnDetachedFromWindow + _tearingDown/_destroyed flags; handler delegates to Teardown()	✅	✅ Predicted PASS
try-fix-2	Expert reviewer (STEP 6a)	Defensive Chromium quiescing: LoadUrl("about:blank"), ClearHistory/Cache, PauseTimers, OnPause, SetDownloadListener(null), SetFindListener(null) + try/catch	✅	✅ Predicted PASS
try-fix-3	Expert reviewer (STEP 6a)	_destroyed idempotent guard on handler + swap WebViewClient/WebChromeClient for no-op singletons (avoids null! cast)	✅	✅ Predicted PASS

All candidates compile clean and preserve the gate test's assertion invariants (detach-before-destroy, Parent == null at the time Destroy() runs, FrameLayout.ChildCount == 0). No candidate failed regression tests, so ranking is decided on robustness, encapsulation, risk, and review surface.

Ranking

1. 🏆 pr-plus-reviewer — WINNER

Why it wins. It is strictly an improvement on the PR baseline with a tiny review surface (single file, handler-only, no public API change), and it plugs four concrete holes the PR has:

1. Real correctness bug fixed: the IsAndroidVersionAtLeast(26) gate around the Disconnect() calls has no Android-API justification — those Disconnect() methods are pure-managed WeakReference<Handler>.SetTarget(null). On API 24/25 the MAUI clients remain attached and targeting a disposed handler, leaving a window for chromium late-callback NREs. None of the try-fix candidates address this.
2. Ordering tightened: StopLoading() is moved before SetWebChromeClient(null) so any sync onPageFinished/onReceivedError from StopLoading() lands on a still-live chrome client.
3. Removed RemoveAllViews(): unnecessary (MAUI never adds user children to the platform WebView) and risky immediately before a documented-non-idempotent Destroy() on some WebView providers that surface internal compositor child views.
4. Robustness: try/catch around Destroy() prevents an OEM WebView provider exception from leaving framework bookkeeping partially-disconnected.

Cost. ~15 lines vs the PR. Same file footprint. No public API surface change. No behavior change for the gate test.

2. try-fix-1 — Self-destructing MauiWebView

Architecturally the strongest alternative: pushes the "detach before destroy" Android-doc invariant into OnDetachedFromWindow itself, idempotent by construction, and benefits any MauiWebView consumer outside the handler pipeline (Compatibility renderers).

Why it doesn't win. Larger diff (2 source files + PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt), introduces a new public API surface item (MauiWebView.OnDetachedFromWindow override) needing API review, and is the more invasive change to land in a leak hotfix. Stronger candidate for a follow-up PR than as a replacement for the PR baseline.

3. try-fix-3 — Idempotent guard + no-op client swap

Small, focused, fixes a real latent double-destroy crash and the late-callback hazard via no-op WebViewClient / WebChromeClient singletons. Drop-in hardening.

Why it doesn't win. The double-destroy guard is already mostly handled by IElementHandler.DisconnectHandler setting PlatformView = null first (the public entry point). The no-op client swap is clever but adds two private nested classes for a callback-window that pr-plus-reviewer closes more cheaply by simply running Disconnect() on all API levels.

4. pr — the PR as submitted

Correct, minimal, and gate-validated. Mergeable as-is. Loses to pr-plus-reviewer purely because the latter addresses concrete additional concerns at near-zero additional cost.

5. try-fix-2 — Defensive Chromium quiescing

Largest behavioral surface area. PauseTimers() is process-global across all WebViews, ClearCache(true) is heavyweight on a teardown path, LoadUrl("about:blank") is async and best-effort. Useful if the in-the-wild leak persists after the PR baseline ships, but it addresses a hypothesized broader leak that isn't measured in #18021 today.

Why it doesn't win. Side effects on other WebViews + heavier teardown path + addresses concerns outside the reported bug's scope.

Decision matrix

Criterion	pr	pr-plus-reviewer	try-fix-1	try-fix-2	try-fix-3
Fixes #18021 leak	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Gate test passes	✅ (confirmed)	✅ (predicted)	✅ (predicted)	✅ (predicted)	✅ (predicted)
Fixes API 24/25 client-disconnect gap	❌	✅	✅ (in Teardown)	❌	❌
Idempotent (double-disconnect safe)	partial¹	partial¹	✅	partial¹	✅
Robust to misbehaving OEM Destroy()	❌	✅	❌	✅	❌
No public API change	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
Diff size	1 file, ~10 LOC	1 file, ~25 LOC	2 files + PublicAPI, ~149 LOC	1 file, ~46 LOC	1 file, ~59 LOC
Side effects on other WebViews	none	none	none	PauseTimers is global	none
Review/regression risk	lowest	lowest	medium	medium-high	low

¹ Public entry IElementHandler.DisconnectHandler nulls PlatformView before calling the override, providing partial double-disconnect protection at the framework level.

Winner

pr-plus-reviewer — Merge-ready, strictly incremental polish on the PR baseline. Fixes one real correctness issue (API 24/25 client disconnect), tightens ordering, removes an unnecessary call, and adds OEM-robustness, all in ~15 LOC delta on the same single file the PR already touches.

Follow-up recommendations

• If pr-plus-reviewer is too much for this PR, merge pr as-is and open a follow-up adopting try-fix-1 (self-destructing MauiWebView) — architecturally the strongest long-term direction.
• Add the additional device-test cases described in inline-findings.json (WrapperView-wrapped WebView; unparented WebView; WeakReference-based GC regression test for Right way to dispose page with WebView #18021).

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