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

Why don't you create a Backend Service that does the scraping for you?

And then you just poll results from a RESTful Webservice or even use a messaging middleware (e.g. ZeroMQ).

Maybe more elegant if it fits your use case: let the Scraping Service send your App Push Messages via GCM :)