Android App Data Storage Keeps Increasing

I am developing an android app that basically loads up a list of news articles and opens them up in a webview upon user click. What I'm wondering about is when I look at my app de

Solution 1:

I know that is over 2 years, but it could be useful for someone else. I discovered that the problem resides in the WebView and not in the SharedPreferences I had the same problem and solved by overriding the onPause() method in this way:

private WebView wv;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    wv = new WebView(this);
    setContentView(wv);
    wv.loadUrl("http://www.stackoverflow.com");
}

@Override
protected void onPause() {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onPause();
    wv.clearCache(true);
}

The clearCache method takes a boolean argument that lets you specify whether you want to include disk files that the WebView stores. If you enable it your data usage will significantly decrease. Hope it helps!