Android Web View Tutorial - A simple web browser

Build a simple web browser for Android using WebView. This tutorial is based on "Hello Web View" tutorial from Google. You can find it at http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-webview.html

Please leave comments or suggestions below. Thank you for watching.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• android
• web view
• tutorial
• Android
• Web View
• web browser
• Web Browser
• java

[krispaxton]

I have an issue. I have created this successfully, but when I need to use the keyboard to add text to anything, it will not turn on. The cursor shows in the field but the on screen keyboard does not activate. Anyone know how to fix this?

[xonmp]

@krispaxton Sometimes the Android emulator can be very lagging. It might take a while for the on screen keyboard to show up. You can try to go to the settings in the emulator and check the keyboard configuration. If it still doesn't work then you can try to create different emulator with different Android version.

[capitaremix]

Hi and Thanks a lot for this amazing tutorial!!!

I have one question, I would like to add to this, a routine that if the web page is not available, show me a banner or something like that, for example a legend taht say "The Web Page isn't avaliable"

Thanks Again

[xonmp]

@capitaremix Hi, I think that it shouldn't be hard to do that. All you need is a "try catch" block that checking if the page is not available and show the banner on the screen.

[Msc7532]

Hey thanks for the tutorial

but i have a problem, everytime i start start the app on the ADV there is an error :

Sorry !

the application Hello web view(process xonmp.hellowebview) has stopped unexpectedly. please try again

so what did i wrong

hope you can help me

[xonmp]

@Msc7532 Hi. Can you show me what are the errors show in your LogCat view?

[free3er]

Thank you, works great. THis is exactly what I'm looking for.

[krispaxton]

@xonmp The problem exists on my Vivid HTC Smartphone also. The keyboard will not show up, as though the webview is filling the screen and always on top, blocking my keyboard from activating.

[helloinvader]

Thanks for the great video.

Do you know if this browser supports HTML5 offline cache?