[android-developers] Re: Display locally stored html webpage using webview

2010-01-14 Thread tikky
Hi Jason, It works now. The issue was the I was loading the webview using: loadData(htmlData, mimetype, encoding); When I changed it to : loadUrl("file:///android_asset/test.html"); everything started working fine :) Thanks for all the help. On Jan 14, 3:37 pm, Jason Proctor wrote: > ISTR

[android-developers] Re: Display locally stored html webpage using webview

2010-01-14 Thread Jason Proctor
ISTR a new permission that came in with 1.5 or 1.6 that was required for this. sorry i don't remember which one it is. do you perhaps not have it set? another way around this i found to work is to write a simple content provider which effectively caches assets in the filesystem, and returns r

[android-developers] Re: Display locally stored html webpage using webview

2010-01-14 Thread tikky
Nope, that does not work either. On Jan 14, 2:50 pm, Jason Proctor wrote: > it's in the deep past for me and i can't remember how much success i > had with this approach, but try URLs of the form -- > > file:///android_asset/test.gif > > accessing local files from webkit was a mess way back when,

[android-developers] Re: Display locally stored html webpage using webview

2010-01-14 Thread Jason Proctor
it's in the deep past for me and i can't remember how much success i had with this approach, but try URLs of the form -- file:///android_asset/test.gif accessing local files from webkit was a mess way back when, i've not looked into it recently so i can't tell whether it's been fixed up.

[android-developers] Re: Display locally stored html webpage using webview

2010-01-14 Thread tikky
Guitouille, I was able to load the html file using AssetManager and the web page loads as expected, but the image file is still not displayed. Is this the correct syntax? I tried the following too: .. but nothing worked. On Jan 14, 2:26 pm, tikky wrote: > Thanks Guitouille. In that case, wha

[android-developers] Re: Display locally stored html webpage using webview

2010-01-14 Thread tikky
Thanks Guitouille. In that case, what URL string do I give to webview's loadUrl(url) method? On Jan 14, 11:29 am, Guitouille wrote: > In fact your test.gif has to be in the assets folder in order to be > visible. > > Guitouille > > On 14 jan, 16:42, tikky wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I have a local

[android-developers] Re: Display locally stored html webpage using webview

2010-01-14 Thread Guitouille
Hello, In order to do that, you have to put your html and gif file in the assets directory. Guitouille On 14 jan, 16:42, tikky wrote: > Hello, > > I have a locally stored webpage (html) under res/raw folder. The html > is something like this: > > >     >        This is a test page >         >

[android-developers] Re: Display locally stored html webpage using webview

2010-01-14 Thread Guitouille
And because I have read your question too fast, you have to put your html file in the assets directory too Guitouille On 14 jan, 16:42, tikky wrote: > Hello, > > I have a locally stored webpage (html) under res/raw folder. The html > is something like this: > > >     >        This is a test pag