Android: Using WebView outside an Activity context

Question

I am trying to achieve Web Scraping through a background IntentService that periodically scrape a website without a view displaying on the users phone.

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Answer 1

I used the following code to get round this problem:

Handler handler = new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper());
try
{
    handler.post(
        new Runnable()
        {
            @Override
            public void run()
            {
                ProcessRequest(); // Where this method runs the code you're needing
            }
        }
    );
} catch (Exception e)
{
    e.printStackTrace();
}