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Android WebView Implementation Guide

The document discusses Android WebView and provides examples of using it to display web pages. WebView allows loading and displaying web content within an Android application. It uses the WebKit rendering engine. Code examples are provided to load a URL, local HTML file, and HTML string to display web content via WebView. The complete example creates an activity layout with a WebView, loads a local HTML file into the view.

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Android WebView Implementation Guide

The document discusses Android WebView and provides examples of using it to display web pages. WebView allows loading and displaying web content within an Android application. It uses the WebKit rendering engine. Code examples are provided to load a URL, local HTML file, and HTML string to display web content via WebView. The complete example creates an activity layout with a WebView, loads a local HTML file into the view.

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Android WebView Example - javatpoint [Link]

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Android WebView Example


Android WebView is used to display web page in android. The
web page can be loaded from same application or URL. It is used
to display online content in android activity.

Android WebView uses webkit engine to display web page.

The [Link] is the subclass of AbsoluteLayout


class.

The loadUrl() and loadData() methods of Android WebView class


are used to load and display web page.

Android WebView Example


Let's see the simple code to display [Link] web page
using web view.

WebView mywebview = (WebView) findViewById([Link].webView1);


[Link]("[Link]

Let's see the simple code to display HTML web page using web view. In this case, html file must
be located inside the asset directory.

WebView mywebview = (WebView) findViewById([Link].webView1);


[Link]("[Link]

Let's see another code to display HTML code of a string.

String data = "<html><body><h1>Hello, Javatpoint!</h1></body></html>";


[Link](data, "text/html", "UTF-8");

Complete Android WebView Example


Let's see a complete example of Android WebView.

activity_main.xml

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File: activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


<[Link] xmlns:android="[Link]
/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="[Link]
xmlns:tools="[Link]
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context="[Link]">

<WebView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="@+id/webView"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

</[Link]>

To add the web page (.html, .jsp) locally in application, they are required to place in the assets
folder. An assets folder is created as: right click on app -> New -> Folder -> Assets Folder ->main
or simply create an assets directory inside main directory.

Activity class

File: [Link]

package [Link];

import [Link];
import [Link];
import [Link];

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
[Link](savedInstanceState);
setContentView([Link].activity_main);
WebView mywebview = (WebView) findViewById([Link]);

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// [Link]("[Link]

/*String data = "<html><body><h1>Hello, Javatpoint!</h1></body></html>";


[Link](data, "text/html", "UTF-8"); */

[Link]("[Link]
}
}

Output:

Let's see the output if you load the HTML page.

Let's see the output if you load the [Link] web page.

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