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Android WebView example

Published: February 23, 2012 , Updated: February 23, 2012 , Author: mkyong

Androids WebView allows you to open an own windows for viewing URL or custom html markup page. In this tutorial, you will create two pages, a page with a single button, when you clicked on it, it will navigate to another page and display URL google.com in WebView component.
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P.S This project is developed in Eclipse 3.7, and tested with Android 2.3.3.

1. Android Layout Files

Create two Android layout files res/layout/main.xml and res/layout/webview.xml. Mkyong en Facebook
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File : res/layout/main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical" > <Button android:id="@+id/buttonUrl" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Go to http://www.google.com" /> </LinearLayout>

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File : res/layout/main.xml WebView example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <WebView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/webView1" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" />

2. Activity
Two activity classes, an activity to display a button, another activity display the WebView with predefined URL. File : MainActivity.java
package com.mkyong.android; import import import import import android.app.Activity; android.content.Context; android.content.Intent; android.os.Bundle; android.view.View;

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import android.view.View.OnClickListener; import android.widget.Button; public class MainActivity extends Activity { private Button button; public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { final Context context = this; super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonUrl); button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

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@Override public void onClick(View arg0) { Intent intent = new Intent(context, WebViewActivity.class); startActivity(intent); } }); } }

File : WebViewActivity.java
package com.mkyong.android; import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.webkit.WebView; public class WebViewActivity extends Activity { private WebView webView; public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.webview); webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1); webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); webView.loadUrl("http://www.google.com"); } }

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3. Android Manifest
WebView required INTERNET permission, add below into AndroidManifest.xml.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

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File : AndroidManifest.xml See full example.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.mkyong.android" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0" > <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="10" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

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<application android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" android:label="@string/app_name" > <activity android:name=".WebViewActivity" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" /> <activity android:label="@string/app_name" android:name=".MainActivity" > <intent-filter > <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter>

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By default, just display a button.

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Click on button, WebView is display.

5. Demo, Again
WebView allow you to manually load custom HTML markup, via webView.loadData(), see modified version :
package com.mkyong.android; import android.app.Activity;

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import android.os.Bundle; import android.webkit.WebView; public class WebViewActivity extends Activity { private WebView webView; public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.webview); webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1); webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); //webView.loadUrl("http://www.google.com");

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String customHtml = "<html><body><h1>Hello, WebView</h1></body></html>"; webView.loadData(customHtml, "text/html", "UTF-8"); } }

Now, when button is clicked, a custom html page is displayed.

Download Source Code

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References
1. Official Android webView example 2. Android WebView Javadoc 3. Switching Android activity

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