Load HTML file into WebView

Question

I have a local html page along with several other resources pointed by it (css files and Javascript libraries) that I would like to load into a WebView . How could this be achieved ?

Perhaps not the best way to procede but I'm still experimenting.

Answer 1

The easiest way would probably be to put your web resources into the assets folder then call:

webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/filename.html");

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Update: The assets folder is usually the following folder: <project>/src/main/assets This can be changed in the asset folder configuration setting in your <app>.iml file as:

<option name=”ASSETS_FOLDER_RELATIVE_PATH” value=”/src/main/assets” /> See Article Where to place the assets folder in Android Studio

Answer 2

probably this sample could help:

  WebView lWebView = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView);
  File lFile = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "<FOLDER_PATH_TO_FILE>/<FILE_NAME>");
  lWebView.loadUrl("file:///" + lFile.getAbsolutePath());

Answer 3

In this case, using WebView#loadDataWithBaseUrl() is better than WebView#loadUrl()!

webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(url, 
        data,
        "text/html",
        "utf-8",
        null);

url: url/path String pointing to the directory all your JavaScript files and html links have their origin. If null, it's about:blank. data: String containing your hmtl file, read with BufferedReader for example

More info: WebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String)

Answer 4

The Accepted Answer is not working for me, This is what works for me

WebSettings webSetting = webView.getSettings();
    webSetting.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
    webView1.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());

   webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/index.html");