diff --git a/android/widgets/src/main/java/org/nativescript/widgets/Image/DiskLruCache.java b/android/widgets/src/main/java/org/nativescript/widgets/Image/DiskLruCache.java
index 6c2fdf612..7d89176fe 100644
--- a/android/widgets/src/main/java/org/nativescript/widgets/Image/DiskLruCache.java
+++ b/android/widgets/src/main/java/org/nativescript/widgets/Image/DiskLruCache.java
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ public final class DiskLruCache implements Closeable {
     public static void deleteContents(File dir) throws IOException {
         File[] files = dir.listFiles();
         if (files == null) {
-            throw new IllegalArgumentException("not a directory: " + dir);
+            return;
         }
         for (File file : files) {
             if (file.isDirectory()) {