Have u hear of google gear? which is already integrated into Android...... If you use gear's features, I believe you can do what you are after. (but don't ask me how because I don't know.)
Cheers Eric Portable Electronics Ltd www.hdmp4.com On Dec 28, 2:18 am, Mariano Kamp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering what would be a good way to download a webpage for > offline reading? > > I first thought about downloading the html source, grep it for the > image tag's soure attribute and download the image. After rewriting > the image tag in a way that it reffers to the local file and storing > the html and the image content locally it should be possible to > display the webpage from the local filesystem. > But it could be a PITA to find all the image tags, would replicate > browser functionality (parser) and wouldn't take care of images that > are referenced in the css or set by Javascript. > > WebView offers a capturePicture() method. But even if I would find > a way to easily store and retrieve the images, I can't use the zoom > functionality of WebView anymore as well as the care for orientation > changes and of course clicking on the links wouldn't be possible either. > > It seems that it could be possible to download the source, hand it > to WebView and capture all requests for external resources, so that > they can be downloaded and stored locally. So when later on loading > the locally stored html the events could be overridden again and the > images could be loaded locally. > > Does this make sense? Is that possible? Can WebView load/parse/ > (render) a webpage when not displayed? Did anybody do this > successfully or is this to much off the beaten (and tested) path? > > Cheers, > Mariano --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
