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Load local html in WebView?

want to load a local html into a WebView WITHOUT using "file:///" because that does not allow cookies. Is there a way to use something like "localhost" ?

Secondly, I could not find a way to enable cookies in the getSettings(). Because cookies are not allowed while using "file:///".


You can only do something like that. This solution load HTML from a String variable:

String html = "Hello, World!";
String mime = "text/html";
String encoding = "utf-8";

WebView myWebView = (WebView)this.findViewById(R.id.myWebView);
myWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
myWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, html, mime, encoding, null);
EDIT: try to set the first parameter (the baseURL) of loadDataWithBaseURL() for your needs


public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.main);

  WebView view = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);
  try {
  InputStream input = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.lights);
  Reader is = new BufferedReader(
  new InputStreamReader(input, "windows-1252"));


  //InputStream input = getAssets().open("ws.TXT");
  int size;
  size = input.available();
  byte[] buffer = new byte[size];
  input.read(buffer);
  input.close();
  // byte buffer into a string
  javascrips = new String(buffer);
  } catch (IOException e) {
  // TODO Auto-generated catch block
  e.printStackTrace();
  }
  // String html = readFile(is);

  view.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_res/raw/", javascrips, "text/html",
  "UTF-8", null);
  }


Try this code. It works for me.

WebSettings settings = mDesc.getSettings();
settings.setDefaultTextEncodingName("utf-8");
mDesc.loadData(mDescText, "text/html; charset=utf-8",null);


 
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6 I want to load a local html into a WebView WITHOUT using "file:///" because that does not allow cookies. Is there a way to use something like "localhost" ?

Secondly, I could not find a way to enable cookies in the getSettings(). Because cookies are not allowed while using "file:///".
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share|improve this question asked Dec 28 '10 at 2:55
Jash Sayani
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 Please accept the answer if it helped you. –  Sufian Nov 1 '13 at 10:57  
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down vote  You can only do something like that. This solution load HTML from a String variable:

String html = "Hello, World!";
String mime = "text/html";
String encoding = "utf-8";

WebView myWebView = (WebView)this.findViewById(R.id.myWebView);
myWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
myWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, html, mime, encoding, null);
EDIT: try to set the first parameter (the baseURL) of loadDataWithBaseURL() for your needs
share|improve this answer edited Dec 28 '10 at 3:41

 answered Dec 28 '10 at 3:36
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 @user113215: but you have read the documentation link for loadDataWithBaseURL() method, haven't you?? the 4th argument is called "encoding", so i called the variable "encoding" ... as you can see here it is used for the output charset: myexperiencewithandroid.blogspot.de/2011/09/… ... you should also read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding ... so i do not see your problem. –  user432219 Jan 1 '13 at 18:11  
   
 but no (data) scheme is used here in the example, only local HTML data is loaded that should be displayed in the WebView: "If the base URL uses the data scheme, this method is equivalent to calling loadData() and the historyUrl is ignored." –  user432219 Jan 2 '13 at 11:54  
   
 Ah, this is confusing. I investigated the Android source and you are correct. Using this method with the data: URL scheme results in a call to nativeLoadUrl() (where encoding denotes either Base64 or URL encoding), but otherwise this method results in a call to nativeLoadData() (where encoding denotes character set). –  user113215 Jan 3 '13 at 1:48  
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down vote  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.main);

  WebView view = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);
  try {
  InputStream input = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.lights);
  Reader is = new BufferedReader(
  new InputStreamReader(input, "windows-1252"));


  //InputStream input = getAssets().open("ws.TXT");
  int size;
  size = input.available();
  byte[] buffer = new byte[size];
  input.read(buffer);
  input.close();
  // byte buffer into a string
  javascrips = new String(buffer);
  } catch (IOException e) {
  // TODO Auto-generated catch block
  e.printStackTrace();
  }
  // String html = readFile(is);

  view.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_res/raw/", javascrips, "text/html",
  "UTF-8", null);
  }
String base64EncodedString = null;
  try {
  base64EncodedString = android.util.Base64.encodeToString((preString+mailContent.getBody()+postString).getBytes("UTF-8"), android.util.Base64.DEFAULT);
  } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
  // TODO Auto-generated catch block
  e1.printStackTrace();
  }
  if(base64EncodedString != null)
  {
  wvMailContent.loadData(base64EncodedString, "text/html; charset=utf-8", "base64");  
  }
  else
  {
  wvMailContent.loadData(preString+mailContent.getBody()+postString;
}