Android Question View the Desktop version of a site with WebView

[Nestor71]

Hi, I'm new to the forum and I'm learning with B4A sorry if the questions may seem trivial.
As the title suggests, I would like to view the Desktop version of a site with the WebView tool, I followed this Thread:

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...ntents-made-for-large-screens.9749/#post54049

but I don't know where and how to change the code.

 

[JohnC]

This is done with the "UserAgent" value in the webview control.

See this post:

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...tents-made-for-large-screens.9749/#post-54049

In the above code you will see the line:

Obj1.Target = Webv

Just change "Webv" to the name of your webview control and run that code.

 

[Nestor71]

Thanks for the reply, I put this code but it always opens the mobile site, where am I wrong?

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    
    Activity.LoadLayout("Main")
        
    Dim Obj1 As Reflector
    Obj1.Target = WebView1
    Msgbox(Obj1.ToString, "Target")
    Obj1.Target = Obj1.RunMethod("getSettings")
    Msgbox(Obj1.ToString, "Settings")
  
    Msgbox(Obj1.RunMethod("getUserAgentString"), "User agent")
  
    Obj1.RunMethod2("setUserAgentString", "Desktop", "java.lang.String")
    
    WebView1.LoadUrl("https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/")
    
End Sub

 

[Erel]

Check this thread: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/webview-desktop-mode-problem.85401/#post-541491

 

[Nestor71]

I checked the thread I put this code but when I start the app it closes

Dim jo As JavaObject = WebView1
Dim settings As JavaObject = jo.RunMethod("getSettings", Null)
settings.RunMethod("setUseWideViewPort", Array(True))
settings.RunMethod("setLoadWithOverviewMode", Array(True))

 

[JohnC]

Try using this webviewSettings library:

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/webviewsettings.12929/

It will allow you to set various settings like the user agent, wideviewport, overviewmode using regular methods instead of using a java object (like you did in the previous code above).

See if it works better for you.

 

[Nestor71]

Thanks, with the address https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/ it works but if I put the address I want it comes out written Browser not supported we recommend to use the following Browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Safari.
Is there a way to solve it?

 

[JohnC]

The WebviewSettings library I mentioned above has a method to set the useragent:

wvs.setUserAgentString(wv,"xxxx")

Do a google search of different user agent strings and see is any of them will give you the result you are looking for.