Android Tutorial Open the browser with a specific web page

addi · Dec 9, 2010

Do you have an example of Web View Building Web Apps in WebView | Android Developers
Thanks

Erel · Dec 9, 2010

The WebView view was not added yet.

addi · Dec 15, 2010

ok great thanks!

karmacomposer · Jan 26, 2011

Is the webview added yet? I certainly can add it in the designer.

I love building personal browsers. How would I create one for myself with basic4android?

Mike

susu · Jan 27, 2011

WebView is available, you can check it here:
Basic4android - Views (Core)

karmacomposer · Jan 27, 2011

Why does the following code not work at all?

======================================
Sub Globals
Dim Button1 As Button
Dim WebView1 As WebView
Dim EditText1 As EditText
Dim Button2 As Button
Dim Button3 As Button
Dim Button4 As Button
Dim Button5 As Button
Dim Button6 As Button
Dim Panel1 As Panel
End Sub

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
Activity.LoadLayout("web2")
WebView1.Initialize("WebView1")
EditText1.Initialize("EditText1")
End Sub

Sub ButtonGo_Click
WebView1.LoadUrl(EditText1.Text)
End Sub

Sub ButtonBack_Click
WebView1.Back
End Sub

Sub ButtonForward_Click
Webview1.Forward
End Sub
=======================================

I have a panel1 on the activity

On panel1, I have the following:

WebView1
EditText1
Button1-6

The filename of the layout is "web2"

I cannot get web pages to show. I do have internet and it works just fine everywhere else and on the tablet, but not in this code. So, what is wrong? Am I not calling something correctly?

Mike

asawyer13 · Oct 15, 2013

Is t possible to force a particular browser open a particular URL?

Erel · Oct 15, 2013

You will need to know the app package name and activity. You can then call Intent.SetComponent to explicitly set the app that will start.

You can use PackageManager.GetApplicationIntent to find the activity.

danijel · May 22, 2014

Is it possible to start new browser activity from my webview?

Erel · May 22, 2014

Do you want to open the external browser when the user presses on a link? It is possible with the OverrideUrl event.

danijel · May 22, 2014

Hi Erel,

I have something like this in my WebView:

B4X:

HTMLString=""
HTMLString=HTMLString & "<html>"
HTMLString=HTMLString & "<body>"
HTMLString=HTMLString & "<a href=""http://www.example.com"">"
HTMLString=HTMLString & "Example"
HTMLString=HTMLString & "</a>"
HTMLString=HTMLString & "</body>"
HTMLString=HTMLString & "</html>"
WebView1.LoadHtml(HTMLString)

And I need to open external browser when user click on "Example"
Can u pass me few lines how to do that?

Thank you very much

Erel · May 22, 2014

There are many examples that use OverrideUrl: http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/pages/results/?query=webview+overrideurl&page=1&prefix=0

merlin2049er · Aug 19, 2014

Hi, how do you handle p.openbrowser if it fails? ie. no http:// in the url?

StartActivity(p.OpenBrowser("http://"&EditTextclweb.text))

Because it crashes on me.

NJDude · Aug 19, 2014

No need to use the Phone library to open the browser, you could use just an intent like this:

B4X:

Private i as Intent

i.Initialize(i.ACTION_VIEW, "http://" & EditTextclweb.text)

StartActivity(i)

merlin2049er · Aug 19, 2014

Thanks!

sultan87 · Sep 15, 2014

NJDude said:
No need to use the Phone library to open the browser, you could use just an intent like this:

B4X:

Private i as Intent i.Initialize(i.ACTION_VIEW, "http://" & EditTextclweb.text) StartActivity(i)

hello,
when using your code asks what internet explore choose
we can do it on the internet explore default
best regards

Erel · Sep 16, 2014

This means that there is no default browser set. It will happen after you install a new app that can handle such intents.

incendio · Oct 6, 2014

Hi,

I tried this code on 2 phones, A & B.

On phone A, worked without problem.
On phone B didn't work. The browser didn't open.

Phone B has a browser installed, manually open a browser on phone B then input the address, was okay.

Any hint how to solve this?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT
I used this codes

B4X:

   Private i As Intent
i.Initialize(i.ACTION_VIEW,"https://www.example.com")
StartActivity(i)

Didn't work.

Change to this code

B4X:

   Dim p As PhoneIntents
StartActivity(p.OpenBrowser("https://www.example.com")

Worked fine.

wwregistry · Jan 9, 2015

After opening the page how do place the html text into a string?

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