Android WebView JavaScript from assets

Question

How can I make JavaScript and images on my remote HTML page be loaded from assets folder (or just any local resource)?

Answer 1

Answer:
1. You MUST load the HTML into string:

private String readHtml(String remoteUrl) {
    String out = "";
    BufferedReader in = null;
    try {
        URL url = new URL(remoteUrl);
        in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
        String str;
        while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
            out += str;
        }
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) { 
    } catch (IOException e) { 
    } finally {
        if (in != null) {
            try {
                in.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
    return out;
}

2. Load WebView with base URL:

String html = readHtml("http://mydomain.com/my.html");
mWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/", html, "text/html", "utf-8", "");

In this particular case you should have all .js files you want to use on the page to reside somewhere under "assets" folder of project. For example:

/MyProject/assets/jquery.min.js

3. In your remote html page you have to load .js and .css files that reside in your application like:

<script src="file:///android_asset/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

the same applies to all other local resources like images, etc. their path has to start with

file:///android_asset/

A WebView would first load the raw HTML you have provided as string, then pick .js, .css and other local resourses and then would load remote content.

Answer 2

If dynamically creating your HTML and then using loadDataWithBaseURL make sure any local resources e.g. javascript in your assets folder are referred to in the HTML as file:/// (I Spent hours working this out)