HTML book-like pagination

Question

How can I split the content of a HTML file in screen-sized chunks to \"paginate\" it in a WebKit browser?

Each \"page\" should show a complete amount of text. This

Answer 1

I've had to code something like this too, and my (working) solution is this:

You have to apply these lines to the webview...

    webView_.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
    webView_.getSettings().setLayoutAlgorithm(LayoutAlgorithm.NARROW_COLUMNS);

Also, you have to inject some javascript. I've had tons of problems with the differents scales of my activity and the content rendered in the webview, so my solution doesn't take any kind of value from "outside".

    webView_.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient(){

            public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
                injectJavascript();
            }

        });

[...]

    public void injectJavascript() {
        String js = "javascript:function initialize() { " +
                "var d = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];" +
                "var ourH = window.innerHeight; " +
                "var ourW = window.innerWidth; " + 
                "var fullH = d.offsetHeight; " +
                "var pageCount = Math.floor(fullH/ourH)+1;" +
                "var currentPage = 0; " +
                "var newW = pageCount*ourW; " +
                "d.style.height = ourH+'px';" +
                "d.style.width = newW+'px';" +
                "d.style.webkitColumnGap = '2px'; " +
                "d.style.margin = 0; " +
                "d.style.webkitColumnCount = pageCount;" +
                "}";
        webView_.loadUrl(js);
        webView_.loadUrl("javascript:initialize()");
    }

Enjoy :)